WHEN GENDER AND LOOKING GO HAND IN HAND

• Published in: Studies in second language acquisition Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 353 - 387
• Main Authors: Dussias, Paola E., Valdés Kroff, Jorge R., Guzzardo Tamargo, Rosa E., Gerfen, Chip
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.06.2013

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...