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Italian speakers find it harder to produce feminine plural agreement when genders differ. Agreement violations are more tolerated in feminine phrases, suggesting evolving language use.

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Area of Science:

Psycholinguistics
Linguistic Theory
Language Production

Background:

Italian grammar mandates gender agreement for singular and plural nouns.
Conjoined noun phrases with mixed genders typically require masculine plural agreement.

Purpose of the Study:

Investigate gender marking mechanisms in Italian with multiple referents.
Assess psycholinguistic and linguistic implications of a specific Italian usage pattern.

Main Methods:

Combined on-line and off-line methodologies.
Utilized two pronoun production tasks.
Conducted offline acceptability judgment tasks.

Main Results:

Plural feminine agreement production was significantly more difficult than masculine.
Agreement violations were more tolerated in feminine conjoined noun phrases than masculine ones.

Conclusions:

Findings offer insights into the functional architecture of language production.
Results suggest potential shifts in language use and theories of language change.