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
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
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2020
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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