Author, as appears in the article.: Ana Rita Sá Leite; Cristina Flores; Carina Eira; Juan Haro; Montserrat Comesaña Vila
Department: Psicologia
URV's Author/s: HARO, JUAN
Abstract: The cross-linguistic gender congruency effect (GCE; a facilitation on gender retrieval for translations of the same gender) is a robust phenomenon analysed almost exclusively with late bilinguals. However, it is important to ascertain whether it is modulated by age of acquisition (AoA) and language proficiency. We asked 64 early and late bilinguals of European Portuguese and German to do a forward and backward translation task. A measure of language balance was calculated through the DIALANG test. Analyses included this factor along with the gender congruency between translations, the target language, and the AoA of both languages, among others. Results showed a GCE for European Portuguese that was independent of the AoA and greater the higher the language imbalance. We propose that changes in proficiency in any of the languages create situations of dependency between them which allow cross-linguistic gender interaction to occur and effects to emerge depending on gender transparency.
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/
Author's mail: juan.haro@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-3456-4731
Record's date: 2023-12-17
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bilingualism-language-and-cognition/article/language-balance-rather-than-age-of-acquisition-a-study-on-the-crosslinguistic-gender-congruency-effect-in-portuguesegerman-bilinguals/838C835234A2DD621AAD9808A2FFCC87#
Papper original source: Bilingualism-Language And Cognition. 26 (5): 1079-1092
APA: Ana Rita Sá Leite; Cristina Flores; Carina Eira; Juan Haro; Montserrat Comesaña Vila (2023). Language balance rather than age of acquisition: A study on the cross-linguistic gender congruency effect in Portuguese–German bilinguals. Bilingualism-Language And Cognition, 26(5), 1079-1092
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Article's DOI: 10.1017/S1366728923000378
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2023
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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