“…Current literature, however, provides evidence that L2 learners—at least advanced ones—can successfully process not only local checking of grammatical features (e.g., Keating, ; Sagarra & Herschensohn, ), but also nonlocal checking (e.g., Foote, ; Jiang et al., ; Keating, ; Wen et al., ). For instance, in Keating's () study, advanced English‐speaking learners of Spanish were sensitive to gender agreement violations between a noun and a predicative adjective occurring across a VP (e.g., *[ IP La casa fem . [ VP es viejo masc .…”