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The Effect of Age of Onset of Bilingualism on Gender Agreement Processing in Spanish as a Heritage Language
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Keating, Gregory D. – Language Learning, 2022
Montrul's (2008) onset age hypothesis predicts that, if attrition occurs in early bilingualism, it will be more severe in simultaneous than in sequential bilinguals. This study tested that prediction in an eye-tracking experiment focused on the processing of Spanish gender agreement during sentence reading. Heritage Spanish speakers exposed to…
Descriptors: Spanish, Grammar, Heritage Education, Linguistic Theory
Sensitivity to Violations of Gender Agreement in Native and Nonnative Spanish: An Eye-Movement Investigation
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Keating, Gregory D. – Language Learning, 2009
This article reports the results of an eye-tracking experiment that investigated the effects of structural distance on readers' sensitivity to violations of Spanish gender agreement during online sentence comprehension. The study tracked the eye movements of native Spanish speakers and English-speaking learners of Spanish as they read sentences…
Descriptors: Sentences, Eye Movements, Nouns, Human Body