Gender agreement and multiple referents. [PDF]
Riv Linguist, 2008 We report a new pattern of usage in current, spoken Italian that has implications for both psycholinguistic models of language production and linguistic theories of language change. In Italian, gender agreement is mandatory for both singular and plural nouns.
Finocchiaro C, Mahon BZ, Caramazza A.
europepmc +3 more sources
Beyond gender stereotypes in language comprehension: self sex-role descriptions affect the brain’s potentials associated with agreement processing [PDF]
, 2015 We recorded Event-Related Potentials to investigate differences in the use of gender information during the processing of reflexive pronouns. Pronouns either matched the gender provided by role nouns (such as “king” or “engineer”) or did not. We compared
Baayen +68 more
core +9 more sources
Morphological transparency and markedness matter in heritage speaker gender processing: an EEG study
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The present study investigated the qualitative nature of grammatical gender knowledge and processing in heritage speakers (HSs) of Spanish living in the United States.
Alicia Luque +9 more
doaj +1 more source
Early and late bilingual processing of Spanish gender, morphology and gender congruency
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020 The present study investigates whether advanced proficiency-matched early and late bilinguals display gender agreement processing quantitatively and qualitatively similar to that of native speakers of Spanish.
Irma Alarcón
doaj +1 more source
The Role of Case Syncretism in Agreement Attraction: A Comprehension Study
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Many production and comprehension experiments have studied attraction errors in agreement, primarily in number (e.g., “The key to the cabinets were rusty”). Studies on gender agreement attraction are still sparse, especially in comprehension.
Natalia Slioussar +4 more
doaj +1 more source
Modeling variability in number marking in additional-language Spanish
Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2020 We extended sociolinguistic methods of investigating variability to number marking on determiners and adjectives in additional-language Spanish in the current study.
Aarnes Gudmestad +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Referring to women using feminine and neuter gender
Nordisk Tidskrift för Socioonomastik, 2021 In German, gender is a strongly grammaticalized category and has the function of indicating grammatical agreement between syntactic units. Usually, each noun is assigned one of three grammatical genders.
Simone Busley, Damaris Nübling
doaj +1 more source
Gender assignment and gender agreement in advanced French interlanguage: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
, 2001 An analysis of 519 gender errors (out of 9,378 modifiers) in the advanced French interlanguage of 27 Dutch L1 speakers confirms earlier findings that gender assignment and/or agreement remain problematic for learners at all levels.
Dewaele, Jean-Marc, Véronique, D.
core +1 more source
Acquisition of a Transparent Gender System: A Comparison of Italian and Croatian
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Gender transparency is considered a key facilitator for early acquisition of this category. Here, we compare the acquisition of the gender system of two transparent systems, Italian and Croatian. The study focuses on the different degrees of transparency
Marta Velnić
doaj +1 more source
Acquisition of gender agreement in Lithuanian:exploring the effect of diminutive usage in an elicited production task [PDF]
, 2009 This study examines Lithuanian children's acquisition of gender agreement using an elicited production task. Lithuanian is a richly inflected Baltic language, with two genders and seven cases.
Brooks, Patricia J. +2 more
core +3 more sources