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Dussias, Paola E.; Valdes Kroff, Jorge R.; Guzzardo Tamargo, Rosa E.; Gerfen, Chip – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2013
In a recent study, Lew-Williams and Fernald (2007) showed that native Spanish speakers use grammatical gender information encoded in Spanish articles to facilitate the processing of upcoming nouns. In this article, we report the results of a study investigating whether grammatical gender facilitates noun recognition during second language (L2)…
Descriptors: Grammar, Spanish, Second Languages, Language Processing
A Bidirectional Study on the Acquisition of Plural Noun Phrase Interpretation in English and Spanish
Ionin, Tania; Montrul, Silvina; Crivos, Monica – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
This paper investigates how learners interpret definite plural noun phrases (e.g., "the tigers") and bare (article-less) plural noun phrases (e.g., "tigers") in their second language. Whereas Spanish allows definite plurals to have both generic and specific readings, English requires definite plurals to have specific, nongeneric readings. Generic…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Monolingualism
Cubelli, Roberto; Paolieri, Daniela; Lotto, Lorella; Job, Remo – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
In 3 experiments, we investigated the effect of grammatical gender on object categorization. Participants were asked to judge whether 2 objects, whose names did or did not share grammatical gender, belonged to the same semantic category by pressing a key. Monolingual speakers of English (Experiment 1), Italian (Experiments 1 and 2), and Spanish…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Grammar, Monolingualism
Sagarra, Nuria; Herschensohn, Julia – Language Learning, 2011
This study examines whether adult second language (L2) learners of an ungendered first language (L1) are sensitive to gender congruency (grammatical feature absent in the L1) and noun animacy (semantic feature present in the L1) when processing L2 gender concord and whether L2 proficiency level determines such sensitivity. To address these…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Nouns, Grammar
Dussias, Paola E.; Sagarra, Nuria – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2007
An eye tracking experiment examined how exposure to a second language (L2) influences sentence parsing in the first language. Forty-four monolingual Spanish speakers, 24 proficient Spanish-English bilinguals with limited immersion experience in the L2 environment and 20 proficient Spanish-English bilinguals with extensive L2 immersion experience…
Descriptors: Sentences, Nouns, Monolingualism, Spanish

Gathercole, Virginia C. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1989
Examines the acquisition of sex-neutral uses of masculine terms by English and Spanish speaking children and suggests that knowledge of the acquisition sex-neutral uses of gender markers may lead to insight into children's approaches to word meaning. The use of sex-neutral masculine terms and their impact on the status of women is also discussed.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Elementary Education, English, Females
Sadek, Carmen Sanchez; And Others – 1975
Bull (1965) has proposed that grammatical gender in Spanish is not an intrinsic characteristic of nouns but rather a matter of matching terminal sounds of nouns with those of adjectives and determiners. One implication of this theory is that the child has a cognitive understanding of the matching of terminal noun sounds with particular adjective…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Bilingualism, Child Language, Concept Formation
Dussias, Paola E. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
This study investigates whether proficient second language (L2) speakers of Spanish and English use the same parsing strategies as monolinguals when reading temporarily ambiguous sentences containing a complex noun phrase followed by a relative clause, such as "Peter fell in love with the daughter of the psychologist who studied in California."…
Descriptors: Syntax, Nouns, Figurative Language, Monolingualism