A set of Italian nouns occur as couples like cavallo-cavalla (horse-mare) showing a
systematic opposition between their grammatical Gender and the the sex of their referents.
An aphasia case study (Franzon et al 2013) explored the possibility that in these nouns
Gender could not be arbitrary and inherent in the lexeme, but assigned in syntax depending
on the referential context. The present study aims at examining the Agreement processes in
the Determiner Phrase (DP) with reference to this kind of contextually inflected nouns, by …

… If the completion is required on the noun, the accuracy on nouns with the contextual gender
is higher (0.97) than on nouns with an inherent gender (0.91) (p < 0.05). If the completion is
required on the adjective, the accuracy is higher on … Most of the times, however, Gender
inflection does not bear any semantic interpretability but only grammatical information useful for
Agreement operations like in: … Aims: comparing the agreement processes in the contextually
inflected nouns with respect to the agreement processes in nouns whose gender is inherent …