A recent proposal attributes morphosyntactic issues in L2 to lexical factors (Grüter et al.
2012; Hopp 2013). According to this lexical account, issues with gender agreement are …

A pervasive question in second language (L2) research is whether L2 learners can acquire
parameterized functional features that are not instantiated in their first language (L1). While …

This study examines gender agreement between a complex sentential subject (containing
two nouns) and a predicate adjective in second language Spanish. The data were collected …

Grammatical gender presents persistent difficulty for adult learners of Spanish in L2
acquisition; however, there is a literature gap in L3 acquisition of gender, specifically of …

Although previous research has observed a facilitative influence of the first language (L1) on
the acquisition and processing of gender agreement in a second language (L2), particularly …

The main purpose of this dissertation is to investigate whether L2 learners can acquire and
perform native-like on gender agreement. Gender has been studied by SLA researchers in …

The present study focuses on the acquisition and processing of gender agreement by
second language (L2) learners of Spanish, whose first language (L1; English) lacks gender …

Why is learning the gender of nouns so difficult for some bilinguals? We test the hypothesis
that different language learning backgrounds or life experience with Spanish determine how …

This study investigates the knowledge of adult Hungarian L1 speakers of gender agreement
in Portuguese L2. According to the Failed Functional Features Hypothesis and other …

This study investigates the relationship between second language (L2) Spanish gender
assignment and agreement and specific noun categories by distinguishing the effects of …