Gender Agreement Attraction in Greek Comprehension [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 This work explores gender agreement attraction in comprehension. Attraction occurs when an agreement error (such as, “the key to the cabinets are rusty”) goes unnoticed, leading to the illusion of grammaticality due to a mismatch between the value of the
Anastasia Paspali +2 more
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Incidental Learning of Gender Agreement in L2. [PDF]
J Psycholinguist Res, 2017 Incidental learning of grammar has been an area of interest for many decades; nevertheless, existing research has primarily focused on artificial or semi-artificial languages.
Denhovska N, Serratrice L.
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Syntactic Gender Agreement Processing on Direct-Object Clitics by Spanish-Speaking Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Evidence from ERP [PDF]
Children, 2021 Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have a psycholinguistic profile evincing multiple syntactic processing impairments. Spanish-speaking children with DLD struggle with gender agreement on clitics; however, the existing evidence comes ...
Paloma Roa-Rojas +4 more
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A Review on Grammatical Gender Agreement in Speech Production [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Grammatical gender agreement has been well addressed in language comprehension but less so in language production. The present article discusses the arguments derived from the most prominent language production models on the representation and processing
Man Wang +2 more
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Gender agreement attraction in Russian: production and comprehension evidence [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Agreement attraction errors (such as the number error in the example The key to the cabinets are rusty) have been the object of many studies in the last twenty years.
Natalia Slioussar +2 more
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Complexity matters: On gender agreement in Heritage Scandinavian [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 This paper investigates aspects of the noun phrase from a heritage language perspective, with an emphasis on noun phrase-internal gender agreement and noun declension.
Janne Bondi Johannessen, Ida eLarsson
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Using event-related potentials to track morphosyntactic development in second language learners: The processing of number and gender agreement in Spanish. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2018 We used event-related potentials to investigate morphosyntactic development in 78 adult English-speaking learners of Spanish as a second language (L2) across the proficiency spectrum. We examined how development is modulated by the similarity between the
Alemán Bañón J +2 more
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Gender Agreement in a Language Contact Situation
Languages, 2022 Gender agreement between determiners and nouns, and gender agreement between third-person clitics and their referents, are notoriously difficult to acquire by bilingual speakers who lack them in their first language, or in one of their first languages ...
Liliana Sánchez +3 more
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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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Auditory Processing of Gender Agreement across Relative Clauses by Spanish Heritage Speakers
Languages, 2020 Processing research on Spanish gender agreement has focused on L2 learners’ and—to a lesser extent—heritage speakers’ sensitivity to gender agreement violations.
Daniel Vergara, Gilda Socarrás
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