Codeswitching experimental data: grammatical gender in DPs

This investigation focuses on the role of Spanish grammatical gender in English-Spanish switched determiner phrases (DPs). In particular, the aim of this study is to determine (i) which directionality is preferred and easier to process (e.g., English determiner switches vs. Spanish determiner switch...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Fernández Fuertes, Raquel; Gómez Carrero, Tamara
Format: Dataset
Status:Published version
Publication date:2022
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Valladolid
Repository:UVaDOC. Repositorio Documental de la Universidad de Valladolid
OAI Identifier:oai:uvadoc.uva.es:10324/54598
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.71569/038h-fj11
https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/54598
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Studies on language
Bilingual language acquisition
Linguistic theory
Comparative grammar
Syntactic analysis
5701.03 Bilingüismo
5704 Teoría Lingüística
5705.13 Sintaxis, Análisis Sintáctico
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Summary:This investigation focuses on the role of Spanish grammatical gender in English-Spanish switched determiner phrases (DPs). In particular, the aim of this study is to determine (i) which directionality is preferred and easier to process (e.g., English determiner switches vs. Spanish determiner switches - e.g., the casa vs. la house/el book-) and (ii) which gender agreement mechanisms are preferred and easier to process in the case of Spanish determiner switches. Regarding the latter, two mechanisms are under consideration: the analogical criterion (AC), i.e., whether there is gender agreement between the Spanish determiner and the Spanish translation equivalent of the English noun ([+AC] switches) (e.g., la-FEM. house-SP FEM. / el-MASC. book-SP MASC.) or the lack of it ([-AC] switches) (e.g., el-MASC. house-SP FEM. / la-FEM. book-SP MASC. ); and the masculine as default, i.e., whether masculine determiners are preferred and easier to process regardless of the gender of the translation equivalent of the English noun (e.g., el-DEFAULT house-SP FEM. / book-SP MASC.).