Previous research, for example in English, French, German, and Spanish, has investigated the interplay between grammatical gender information and stereotype gender information (e.g., that secretaries are usually female, in many cultures), in the interpretation of both singular noun phrases (the secretary) and plural nouns phrases, particularly so-called generic masculines-nouns that have mascul...

Although a number of studies have examined lexical asymmetries in hemispheric processing, few have systematically investigated differences between nouns and verbs. Lateralization effects of grammatical class were examined by presenting nouns and verbs of both high and low frequency to either the right or left visual field. Results from both a noun/verb categorization and a lexical decision task...

Tourism is one of the most important specialized domains in Spain. For this reason, many linguistic studies related to tourism texts have been carried out last few years. In work, we focus on three frequent and difficult textual genres written Spanish domain: informative article, travel blog post, rules regulations (for tourist accommodation facilities). The goals research are two: a) carry a a...

This study aimed at investigating the effects of grammatical error correction on EFL learners’ accuracy. Twenty-two male and female senior students were chosen randomly to respond to a questionnaire investigating their beliefs about immediate grammatical error correction.  Actually, the study was conducted in order to answer this question: what is the effect of grammatical error feedback on stu...

This ERP study employed an N2pc paradigm to investigate possible functional interactions between mechanisms of visual spatial attention and grammatical gender processing. Previous studies showed that the N2pc, an attention-related ERP component, can be modulated by lexical-semantic variables. However, it remains to be seen whether the N2pc can be affected by grammatical features as well. To tes...

The idea that there is a gender-specific style of writing has been around for a long time in literary studies. In linguistics there is also a fairly long-standing tradition of talking about women’s language or women’s style, but the focus of this line of research has traditionally been speech rather than writing. So far, empirical studies have focussed on phonological aspects (e.g. Trudgill’s, ...

To investigate how morphological constraints affect lexical access, results of an experiment on grammatical gender priming in German are reported. In a " continuous picture-naming " (CPN) task, large and reliable differences in naming times were found between pictures preceded by gender-congruent contexts and pictures preceded by a zero-gender baseline, suggesting that grammatical gender can fa...

Neuropsychological evidence and recent rTMS studies strongly suggest that damage or inhibition of left prefrontal areas may result in specific impairment of verb morphosyntactic processing. However, functional imaging studies have so far failed to identify an area specifically related to grammatical aspects of verb knowledge. To date very few functional studies have been conducted in languages ...

Can the language you speak affect the way you think? Unlike English, many languages have a grammatical gender system whereby all nouns are assigned a gender. Does talking about inanimate objects as if they were masculine or feminine actually lead people to think of inanimate objects as having a gender? A series of studies found effects of grammatical gender on people’s perceptions of similarity...