Author, as appears in the article.: Daniela Paolieri; Josep Demestre; Marc Guasch Moix; María Teresa Bajo Molina; Pilar Ferré Romeu

Department: Psicologia

URV's Author/s: Demestre Viladevall, Josep / Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / Guasch Moix, Marc

Keywords: Translation-recognition task N400 Gender processing in bilinguals Gender congruency Erps

Abstract: Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2020. The present study examines whether processing a word in one language is affected by the grammatical gender of its translation equivalent in another language. To this end, a group of Catalan-Spanish bilinguals performed a translation-recognition task while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. Participants were presented with Catalan and Spanish pairs of words and had to decide if they were translation equivalents. Correct translations included words that were gender congruent (estiuMAS/veranoMAS-summer) or gender incongruent (tardorFEM/otonõMAS-autumn). The behavioral results showed that participants were faster and more accurate in the gender-congruent condition than in the incongruent condition. The ERP data showed a reduced N400 for the congruent condition. The facilitative effect of gender congruency observed in this study constitutes evidence of the obligatory access to grammatical gender information during bare noun processing and suggests that the bilinguals' gender systems interact, even in highly proficient early bilinguals.

Thematic Areas: Psychology, experimental Linguistics and language Linguistics Language and linguistics Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística Education Educació Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 1366-7289

Author's mail: marc.guasch@urv.cat mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat josep.demestre@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0002-6898-120X 0000-0002-3192-0040 0000-0001-9221-066X

Record's date: 2023-02-22

Journal volume: 23

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

Link to the original source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bilingualism-language-and-cognition/article/abs/gender-congruency-effect-in-catalanspanish-bilinguals-behavioral-and-electrophysiological-evidence/67A984D8829A4B9E18B634D52304EA99

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Bilingualism-Language And Cognition. 23 (5): 1045-1055

APA: Daniela Paolieri; Josep Demestre; Marc Guasch Moix; María Teresa Bajo Molina; Pilar Ferré Romeu (2020). The gender congruency effect in Catalan-Spanish bilinguals: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Bilingualism-Language And Cognition, 23(5), 1045-1055. DOI: 10.1017/S1366728920000073

Article's DOI: 10.1017/S1366728920000073

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2020

Publication Type: Journal Publications