Failed gender agreement in L1 English L2 Spanish: Syntactic or lexical problem?
Glossa, 2021 A recent proposal attributes morphosyntactic issues in L2 to lexical factors (Grüter et al. 2012; Hopp 2013). According to this lexical account, issues with gender agreement are caused by gender assignment issues – a failure to assign a word to a target ...
Alena Kirova, José Camacho
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Gender Agreement Mismatches in Heritage Greek
Languages, 2020 This paper investigates gender agreement mismatches between nominal expressions and the targets of agreement they control in two groups (adults and adolescents) of Heritage Greek speakers in the USA.
Artemis Alexiadou +3 more
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Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2023 Previous evidence suggests clitics and determiners do not enter the same type of gender agreement relations in contact varieties of Spanish, despite proposals that treat clitics as determiners (big DP – Determiner Phrase – hypothesis) (Uriagereka 1995 ...
Liliana Sánchez +3 more
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Tracing the interplay between syntactic and lexical features: fMRI evidence from agreement comprehension [PDF]
, 2018 Available online 29 March 2018The current fMRI study was designed to investigate whether the processing of different gender-related cues embedded in nouns affects the computation of agreement dependencies and, if so, where this possible interaction is ...
Barber, Horacio +5 more
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The development of gender assignment and agreement in English-Greek and German-Greek bilingual children [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of this experimental study is to examine the development of Greek gender in bilingual English-Greek and German-Greek children. Four gender production tasks were designed, two targeting gender assignment eliciting determiners and two targeting ...
Argyri, F, Kaltsa, M, Tsimpli, IM
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Hyperactivity and Hyperagreement in Bantu [PDF]
, 2011 NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Lingua. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be ...
Carstens, Vicki
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Troubling coalitions. Some remarks on the (hardly audible) voice of pro-equality men’s groups in gender equality advocacy [PDF]
, 2019 This paper sets off to outline some reflections on the subject position occupied by pro-equality men’s groups within overarching discourses of gender equality. Discussion makes reference to the cases of Men Engage Europe and Maschile Plurale, two loosely
Trillò, Tommaso
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Grammatical gender in Zapotec/Spanish monolingual and bilingual speakers
IsoglossAs inanimate nouns are not classified according to grammatical gender in Zapotec, it is legitimate to wonder whether it is possible that the influence of Zapotec on Spanish plays a role in the quantity and in the grammatical and structural contexts ...
Gladys Cruz Mendoza +2 more
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When the words are not everything: the use of laughter, fillers, back-channel, silence, and overlapping speech in phone calls [PDF]
, 2015 This article presents an observational study on how some common conversational cues – laughter, fillers, back-channel, silence, and overlapping speech – are used during mobile phone conversations.
Chatziioannou, Paraskevi +2 more
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The linguistics of gender [PDF]
, 1996 This chapter explores grammatical gender as a linguistic phenomenon. First, I define gender in terms of agreement, and look at the parts of speech that can take gender agreement.
Van Berkum, J.
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