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The Processing of Spanish Article–Noun Gender Agreement by Monolingual and Bilingual Toddlers
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, Centre for Research on Bilingualism.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4210-3174
2021 (English)In: Language and Speech, ISSN 0023-8309, E-ISSN 1756-6053, Vol. 64, no 4, p. 980-990Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We assessed monolingual Spanish and bilingual Spanish-Basque toddlers’ sensitivity to gender agreement in correct vs. incorrect Spanish noun phrases (definite article + noun), using a spontaneous preference listening paradigm. Monolingual Spanish-learning toddlers exhibited a tendency to listen longer to the grammatically correct phrases (e.g., la casa; “the house”), as opposed to the incorrect ones (e.g., *el casa). This listening preference toward correct phrases is in line with earlier results obtained from French monolingual 18-month-olds (van Heugten & Christophe, 2015). Bilingual toddlers in the current study, however, tended to listen longer to the incorrect phrases. Basque was not a source of interference in the bilingual toddler’s input as Basque does not instantiate grammatical gender agreement. Overall, our results suggest that both monolingual and bilingual toddlers can distinguish between the correct and incorrect phrases by 18 months of age; however, monolinguals and bilinguals allocate their attention differently when processing grammatically incorrect forms.

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2021. Vol. 64, no 4, p. 980-990
Keywords [en]
Morphosyntax, development, bilingualism, toddler, typical development, Spanish
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General Language Studies and Linguistics
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Linguistics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-196956DOI: 10.1177/0023830920977050ISI: 000600154200001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85097599640OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-196956DiVA, id: diva2:1596019
Available from: 2021-09-21 Created: 2021-09-21 Last updated: 2022-10-31Bibliographically approved

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