RT Journal Article
T1 What a transparent Romance language with a Germanic gender-determiner mapping tells us about gender retrieval: Insights from European Portuguese
A1 Sá-Leite Dias, Ana Rita
A1 Gomes Tomaz, Ângela
A1 Hernández-Cabrera, Juan A.
A1 Acuña Fariña, Juan Carlos
A1 Fraga Carou, Isabel
A1 Comesaña, Montserrat
K1 Grammatical gender
K1 Gender congruency effect
K1 Gender transparency
K1 European Portuguese
K1 Dual-route model
K1 Late selection hypothesis
K1 Picture-word interference paradigm
AB The study of the representation and processing of grammatical gender during language production hasencountered mixed results regarding which conditions must be met to observe gender effects and whether thesereflect the selection of gender values or competition between elements of agreement. The answer seems to dependon the number of determiners associated with each gender and on the language being explored. The present studyaims to assess this issue through three picture-word interference tasks in European Portuguese. This is atransparent Romance language featuring a one-to-one gender-determiner mapping system similar to opaqueGermanic languages. Conditions of gender in/congruency between targets and distractors were considered, alongwith gender transparency and agreement. We observed a gender congruency effect restricted to noun phrases.Importantly, the effect was modulated by transparency, which seems relevant regardless of agreement. To explainthe results, we adapted the Dual-Route Model of language comprehension to production
PB Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology
SN 1576-8597
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30001
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30001
LA eng
NO Leite, A. R. S., Tomaz, Â., Cabrera, J. A. H., Carou, I. F., Fariña, C. A., & Comesaña, M. (2022). What a transparent Romance language with a Germanic gender-determiner mapping tells us about gender retrieval: Insights from European Portuguese. Psicológica: Revista de metodología y psicología experimental, 43(2), 2.
NO This work was supported by the Government of Spain, Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, through the Training program for Academic Staff (Ayudas para la Formación del Profesorado Universitario, FPU [FPU16/06983]); the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [research project PID2019-110583GB-I00]; the Galician Government [grant for research groups ED431B 2022/2019]; and the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal [IF / 00784/2013 / CP1158 / CT0013]. Finally, the study has also been partially supported by the FCT and the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education through national funds and co-financed by FEDER through COMPETE2020 under the PT2020 Partnership Agreement [POCI-01-0145- FEDER-007653]
DS Minerva
RD 23 abr 2026