NDLI: Gender Bender: Gender Errors in L2 Pronoun Production

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Antón Méndez, Inés
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	To address questions about information processing at the message level, pronoun errors of second language (L2) speakers of English were studied. Some L2 pronoun errors—he/she confusions by Spanish speakers of L2 English—could be due to differences in the informational requirements of the speakers’ two languages, providing a window into the composition of the preverbal message that guides grammatical encoding during language production. To study this, Spanish and French speakers of L2 English were made to answer questions designed to elicit pronouns. Spanish speakers produced significantly more gender errors than any other type of pronoun error, and significantly more gender errors than French speakers. The results are as expected given that Spanish is a pro-drop language where many sentences would not have required gender to be encoded had they been uttered in the L1 instead of the L2. The implications for theories about the preverbal message are discussed.
Starting Page	119
Ending Page	139
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00906905
Journal	Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
Volume Number	39
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15736555
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2009-09-29
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Language production Pre-verbal message Second language Pronouns Psycholinguistics Cognitive Psychology Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Linguistics and Language

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