Possessive Processing in Bilingual Comprehension

Abstract Second language (L2) learners make gender errors with possessive pronouns. In production, these are modulated by the match between possessor and possessee noun. We examined whether this so‐called effect extends to L2 comprehension attempting replicate a recent study on predictions in first (L1) German speakers (Stone, Veríssimo, et al., 2021). By comparing Spanish English of whose languages have different constraints, we were able examine was participants’ L1. A experiment suggested that effects absent setups complex visual displays. second simpler displays successfully elicited effects, but their size comparable speakers, inconsistent crosslinguistic influence. interpret our results as evidence processing difficulties possessives result from memory interference impacts both L1 comprehenders.