L1 Versus L2 Gender Agreement Processing: Reliance on Gender Assignment or Morphophonological Cue Matching?

• Published in: Language and speech p. 238309251325270
• Main Authors: Durand-López, Ezequiel M., Iranzo, Vicente
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 15.04.2025
• Subjects: gender assignment; L2 processing; deceptive nouns; Gender agreement; inflectional morphology

Studies exploring gender agreement processing in late bilinguals whose first language (L1) lacks the gender feature suggest that advanced second language (L2) learners can detect gender agreement violations in the L2. Importantly, these studies have mainly included gender canonical nouns (e.g., la s...