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Processing gender agreement across phrases in Spanish: Eye movements during sentence comprehension.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Processing gender agreement across phrases in Spanish: Eye movements during sentence comprehension./
Author:	Keating, Gregory David.
Description:	147 p.
Notes:	Chairperson: Bill VanPatten.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-07A.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3183683
ISBN:	9780542250057

Processing gender agreement across phrases in Spanish: Eye movements during sentence comprehension.
Keating, Gregory David.

Processing gender agreement across phrases in Spanish: Eye movements during sentence comprehension. - 147 p.

Chairperson: Bill VanPatten.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Chicago, 2005.

Universal Grammar (UG) approaches to Second Language Acquisition (SLA) have produced conflicting claims regarding second language (L2) learners' mental representations of gender agreement. Proponents of the Failed Functional Features Hypothesis claim that English-speaking learners of Spanish cannot acquire gender agreement because it is not present in the first language (L1) (Franceschina, 2001, 2002). Others claim it can be acquired regardless of the L1 (White, Valenzuela, Kozlowska-Macgregor, & Leung, 2003). I propose that gender agreement is acquirable, and that nonnative behavior in this domain of the grammar is due to a deficit in performance, not competence.

ISBN: 9780542250057Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

Processing gender agreement across phrases in Spanish: Eye movements during sentence comprehension.
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245 1 0 $a Processing gender agreement across phrases in Spanish: Eye movements during sentence comprehension.
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500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-07, Section: A, page: 2558.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Chicago, 2005.
520 $a Universal Grammar (UG) approaches to Second Language Acquisition (SLA) have produced conflicting claims regarding second language (L2) learners' mental representations of gender agreement. Proponents of the Failed Functional Features Hypothesis claim that English-speaking learners of Spanish cannot acquire gender agreement because it is not present in the first language (L1) (Franceschina, 2001, 2002). Others claim it can be acquired regardless of the L1 (White, Valenzuela, Kozlowska-Macgregor, & Leung, 2003). I propose that gender agreement is acquirable, and that nonnative behavior in this domain of the grammar is due to a deficit in performance, not competence.
520 $a The present study investigates the effects of syntactic distance on the processing of gender agreement. In Spanish, nouns and adjectives are not always juxtaposed. Adjectives may be located adjacent to the noun (1a), in another syntactic phrase (1b), or in another clause (1c). (1a) [DPLa cerveza fria] satisface cuando hace calor afuera. 'Cold beer satisfies when it's hot outside.'(1b) [DPLa cerveza VP[esta bien fria]] en los bares y cafes de Texas. 'Beer is quite cold in Texas bars and cafes.' (1c) [DPLa cerveza VP [sabe mejor CP[cuando VP[se sirve bien fria y con un limon]]]]. 'Beer tastes better when it's served very cold and with a lime.' If L2 learners process gender agreement in (1a), I claim they have gender agreement in their underlying competence. I attribute any subsequent failure to compute gender agreement as the distance between the noun and the adjective increases (1b--c) to a deficit in performance (i.e., the failure to check gender features across syntactic boundaries).
520 $a The eye movements of native Spanish speakers and L2 learners of Spanish (beginning, intermediate, advanced) were tracked as they read sentences on a computer like those in (1). Half of the sentences in each distance condition were grammatical (the adjective agreed in gender with the noun), and half were ungrammatical. The results indicated that only the native and advanced speakers processed ungrammatical adjectives differently than grammatical adjectives in (1a). Furthermore, only the native speakers processed grammatical and ungrammatical adjectives differentially in (1b--1c). The results are discussed in light of UG approaches to SLA.
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