Research on grammatical gender processing has generally assumed that grammatical
gender can be treated as a uniform construct, resulting in a body of literature in which …

This study investigates knowledge of gender agreement in Spanish L2 learners and
heritage speakers, who differ in age and context/mode of acquisition. On some current …

Mastery of grammatical gender is difficult to achieve in a second language (L2). This study
investigates whether persistent difficulty with grammatical gender often observed in the …

This edited collection of empirical studies examines the link between interaction and second
language learning. The studies provide readers with insights into a wide variety of issues at …

This paper reports on an experiment investigating the acquisition of Spanish, a language
that has a gender feature for nouns and gender agreement for determiners and adjectives …

This study investigates the grammatical representations of nearnatives with the aim of
providing an account of the selectiveness observed in the morphosyntactic properties that …

Most adult learners cannot attain native competence in a second language (L2). Some
approaches maintain that L2 learners cannot access features unavailable in L1 after puberty …

This study employed an artificial language learning paradigm together with a combined
behavioral/event‐related potential (ERP) approach to examine the neurocognition of the …

The present study explores knowledge of Spanish grammatical gender in both
comprehension and production by heritage language speakers and second language (L2) …

This article reports the results of an eye‐tracking experiment that investigated the effects of
structural distance on readers' sensitivity to violations of Spanish gender agreement during …