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Language balance rather than age of acquisition: A study on the cross-linguistic gender congruency effect in Portuguese–German bilinguals

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    Identificador: imarina:9332473
    Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina9332473
    Autores:
    Ana Rita Sá LeiteCristina FloresCarina EiraJuan HaroMontserrat Comesaña Vila
    Resumen:
    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.

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    Autor según el artículo: Ana Rita Sá Leite; Cristina Flores; Carina Eira; Juan Haro; Montserrat Comesaña Vila
    Departamento: Psicologia
    Autor/es de la URV: HARO, JUAN
    Resumen: 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.
    Áreas temáticas: Psychology, experimental Linguistics and language Linguistics Language and linguistics Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística Education Educació Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas
    Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Direcció de correo del autor: juan.haro@urv.cat
    Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-3456-4731
    Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-12-17
    Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Bilingualism-Language And Cognition. 26 (5): 1079-1092
    Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes 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
    URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Año de publicación de la revista: 2023
    Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications

  • Palabras clave:

    age of acquisition; bilingualism; language balance; gender congruency effect; grammatical gender; proficiency
    Psychology, experimental
    Linguistics and language
    Linguistics
    Language and linguistics
    Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística
    Education
    Educació
    Ciencias sociales
    Ciencias humanas

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