Processing of semantic and grammatical gender in Spanish speakers with aphasia
In: Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación instname; (2022)
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Published online: 30 May 2021. Background: Previous studies have argued that there are two types of linguistic gender: grammatical gender, which is arbitrarily assigned to nouns, and semantic gender, which depends on the gender of the referent. Aim: We explore the hypothesis that these two types of gender entail distinct cognitive processes by investigating the performance of people with aphasia at the level of sentence processing. Methods and Procedure: Nine people with aphasia (seven with fluent aphasia) and a control group of thirteen age-matched healthy participants took part in a constrained completion choice task. The participants had to complete sentences in a way that made the last word gender congruent. The subjects of the sentences had either Semantic gender (enfermera, nurse; indicating the gender of the referent), Grammatical gender (silla, chair), or Opaque-Grammatical gender (tomate, tomato). Results: People with aphasia performed more poorly in all gender conditions than healthy controls. They also were less accurate in both the Grammatical and Opaque-Grammatical conditions than in the Semantic gender condition. Conclusion: We propose that because semantic gender provides more salient information, it is processed faster than grammatical gender. MC was supported by the postdoctoral Ramón y Cajal fellowship (RYC-2013-14013), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI, National Research Agency), and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER, European Regional Development Fund) under projects PSI2017-87784-R and RED2018- 102615-T.
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Processing of semantic and grammatical gender in Spanish speakers with aphasia
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Poletto, C. ; Semenza, Carlo ; Calabria, Marco ; Piazza, G. |
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Quelle: | Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación instname; (2022) |
Veröffentlichung: | Taylor & Francis, 2022 |
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