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dc.contributor.authorDi Pisa, Grazia
dc.contributor.authorKubota, Maki
dc.contributor.authorRothman, Jason
dc.contributor.authorMarinis, Theodoros
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-22T12:52:38Z
dc.date.available2022-11-22T12:52:38Z
dc.date.issued2022-10-12
dc.description.abstractThis study examined potential sources of grammatical gender variability in heritage speakers (HSs) of Italian with a focus on morphological markedness. Fifty-four adult Italian HSs living in Germany and 40 homeland Italian speakers completed an online Self-Paced Reading Task and an offline Grammaticality Judgment Task. Both tasks involved sentences with grammatical and ungrammatical noun-adjective agreement, manipulating markedness. In grammatical sentences, both groups showed a markedness effect: shorter reading times (RTs) and higher accuracy for sentences containing masculine nouns as compared to sentences with feminine nouns. In ungrammatical sentences, although both groups were sensitive to ungrammaticality, only HSs showed a markedness effect, that is, they had significantly longer RTs and higher accuracy when violations were realized on feminine adjectives. Proficiency in the HL was a significant predictor of accuracy and RTs at the individual level. Taken together, results indicate that HSs acquire and process gender in a qualitatively similar way to homeland native speakers. However, RT evidence seems to suggest that at least under particular experimental methods, markedness considerations are more prevalent for HSs resulting in a speed-accuracy tradeoff.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDi Pisa, Kubota, Rothman, Marinis. Effects of markedness in gender processing in Italian as a heritage language: A speed accuracy tradeoff. Frontiers in Psychology. 2022;13:1-16en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2060902
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fpsyg.2022.965885
dc.identifier.issn1664-1078
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/27470
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherFrontiers Mediaen_US
dc.relation.journalFrontiers in Psychology
dc.relation.projectIDUiT Norges arktiske universitet: 2062165en_US
dc.relation.projectIDTromsø forskningsstiftelse: HeLPiNGen_US
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/EXCELLENT SCIENCE/765556/Norway/The Multilingual Mind/MultiMind/en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2022 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleEffects of markedness in gender processing in Italian as a heritage language: A speed accuracy tradeoffen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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