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The production of gender agreement in native and L2 Spanish

The role of morphophonological form

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ID11655795
AuthorsRebecca Foote (0000-0001-9832-9960, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume31
Issue3
Pages343-373
Publication date2015-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSecond language Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0267-6583 • E-ISSN: 1477-0326
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0267658314565691
OpenAlexW2141218939
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited39

In native speakers of gender-marking languages, mechanisms of gender production appear to be affected by the morphophonological cues to gender present in the noun phrase. This influence is manifested in higher levels of production accuracy when more transparent cues to gender are present in comparison to when they are not. The goal of the present study was to examine the role of morphophonological cues to gender in the production of gender agreement in native speakers and second language learners of Spanish in light of the Marking and Morphing account of agreement (Eberhard et al., 2005). Participants repeated and completed complex subject noun phrases with head nouns that varied in gender and gender-marking transparency. Analyses of accuracy rates along with Marking and Morphing model simulations of the results indicated that, contrary to previous findings, native speakers were not affected by gender-marking transparency. However, based on model simulations, second language (L2) learners were affected by the morphophonological form of the head noun

Agreement · First language · Grammatical Gender · Head (geology · Linguistics · Noun · Noun phrase · Phrase · Transparency (behavior · Computer Science · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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