Research on grammatical gender processing has generally assumed that grammatical
gender can be treated as a uniform construct, resulting in a body of literature in which …

▪ Abstract Cross-linguistic studies are essential to the identification of universal processes in
language development, language use, and language breakdown. Comparative studies in all …

Even though more than half the world's population is bilingual, the study of bilinguals has
lagged behind that of monolinguals. With this book, which draws on twenty-five years of the …

How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories
have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in …

Within linguistic theory, many phenomena that were previously handled by a separate
grammatical component have been moved into the lexicon; in some theories, the contrast …

Mastery of grammatical gender is difficult to achieve in a second language (L2). This study
investigates whether persistent difficulty with grammatical gender often observed in the …

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 …

All nouns in Spanish have grammatical gender, with obligatory gender marking on
preceding articles (eg, la and el, the feminine and masculine forms of “the,” respectively) …

A recent trend in psycholinguistic research has been to posit prediction as an essential
function of language processing. The present paper develops a linguistic perspective on …

This experiment explored the effect of semantic expectancy on the processing of
grammatical gender, and vice versa, in German using event-related-potentials (ERPs) …