Título Gender congruency effects in Russian-Spanish and Italian-Spanish bilinguals: The role of language proximity and concreteness of words
Autores Paolieri, Daniela , Padilla, Francisca , Koreneva, Olga , MORALES MÁRQUEZ, LUIS, Macizo, Pedro
Publicación externa No
Medio Bilingualism
Alcance Article
Naturaleza Científica
Cuartil JCR 1
Cuartil SJR 1
Impacto JCR 2.21000
Impacto SJR 1.44100
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Fecha de publicacion 01/01/2019
ISI 000454297900009
Scopus Id 2-s2.0-85042366008
DOI 10.1017/S1366728917000591
Abstract Previous studies have shown that bilinguals perform a production task faster when the item is gender-congruent across their two languages than when it is not. The current study aimed to explore three factors that might modulate this effect: the similarity of the gender systems, the need to retrieve grammatical gender to perform the task, and the role of a semantic variable (concreteness) in the processing of gender information. In Experiment 1, Russian-Spanish bilinguals showed gender-congruency effects whether they translated concrete nouns in isolation or in noun-phrases. In contrast, the effect was restricted to noun phrases when they translated abstract words. In Experiment 2, Italian-Spanish bilinguals showed the gender-congruency effect regardless of the translation task. However, the effect was larger with concrete nouns in comparison with abstract nouns. These results are discussed in terms of the proximity of bilingual gender systems and the relationship between semantics and gender.
Palabras clave Gender congruency; gender processing in bilinguals; language proximity; word concreteness
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