Sensitivity to Violations of Gender Agreement in Native and Nonnative Spanish: An Eye-Movement Investigation  

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Keating, Gregory D.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies (Full Text) vol. 59 no. 3 (Sep. 2009), page 503-535.
Topik: Eye-tracking; failed functional features hypothesis; full transfer full access hypothesis; gender agreement; sentence processing; shallow structure hypothesis; structural distance; Universal Grammar (UG); Spanish
Fulltext: Volume 59, issue 3 (September 2009), p. 503-535.pdf (235.58KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LLE/59 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This article reports the result of an eye-tracking experiment that investigated the effects of structural distance on readers' sensitivity to violations of Spanish gender agreement during online sentence somprehension. The study tracked the eye movements of native Spanish speakers and English-speaking learners of Spanish as they read sentences that contained nouns modified by postnominal adjectives located in three syntactic domains: (a) in the DP, (b) in the VP, or (c) in a subordinate clause. In half of the sentences in each condition, adjectives agreed with the noun in gender, and in half, they did not. The results indicate that gender agreement is acquirable in adulthood, contra the functional features hypothesis, and that the distance that separates nouns and adjectives affects the detection of gender anomalies in the second language. The findings support Clahsen and Felser's (2006a) shallow structure hypothesis, as it pertains to morphological processing.

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