Facilitative Processing of Grammatical Gender in Heritage Speakers with Two Gender Systems

Author:

Fuchs Zuzanna1ORCID,Zeng Wenqi2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California https://dx.doi.org/118557 Los Angeles, CA USA

2. Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Linguistics, University of Iowa https://dx.doi.org/4083 Iowa City, IA USA

Abstract

Abstract This study investigates facilitative processing of grammatical gender in heritage Spanish speakers whose dominant language is German, using eye-tracking in the Visual World Paradigm. Bilinguals with two gender systems are known to have an integrated mental lexicon with shared gender features that are co-activated during language processing and can result in interference. The present study shows that, despite observed effects of gender congruency with German, heritage speakers were able to use gender information on prenominal articles in Spanish to facilitate lexical retrieval of the target noun. This suggests that processing of gender agreement in the heritage language is resilient to competition from gender in the dominant language during real-time spoken-language comprehension. Moreover, direct comparison with previous results from heritage Spanish speakers in the USA does not show evidence that overall speed of facilitative processing in the heritage language is modulated by the presence or absence of gender in the majority language.

Publisher

Brill

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