Misbehaved masculines: Incidental acquisition of grammatical gender in L2 German during reading

• Autores: Denisa Bordag, Amit Kirschenbaum, Maria Rogahn, Andreas Opitz, Erwin Tschirner
• Localización: Bilingualism: Language and cognition, ISSN 1366-7289, Vol. 22, Nº 1, 2019, págs. 130-141
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The present study explores the early stages of incidental acquisition of grammatical gender during reading in German as a second language (L2) using a self-paced reading paradigm. The results show that advanced L2 learners are sensitive to gender agreement violations after as few as three to four exposures to a novel noun within a short text. The results also indicate that the acquisition of grammatical gender from syntactic context is gender dependent: Whereas gender violation effects were observed for feminine and neuter nouns, no such effects were observed for masculine nouns.