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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Cross-linguistic interference is a key factor in second language acquisition.
  • Grammatical gender and cognate status are potential sources of interference.
  • Understanding neural processing of non-native languages is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate cross-linguistic interference in German learners of Spanish.
  • To examine the influence of gender congruency and cognate status on syntactic processing.
  • To explore the neural correlates of processing syntactic violations in early stages of language learning.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a syntactic violation paradigm with behavioral and electrophysiological measures (P600 effect).
  • Tested low-proficient, late learners of Spanish with German as their native language.
  • Manipulated gender congruency and cognate status in noun phrases.

Main Results:

  • Participants were more sensitive to syntactic violations (P600 effect) than to cognate status.
  • Behavioral data indicated greater sensitivity to gender congruency than cognate status.
  • Neural sensitivity to syntactic violations occurred early, but P600 effect sizes were not modulated by gender or cognates.

Conclusions:

  • Late learners of Spanish exhibit neural sensitivity to syntactic violations early in acquisition.
  • Inherent noun properties like gender and cognates did not influence neural processing of non-native noun phrases.
  • Results contribute to understanding grammatical gender processing and syntactic violation sensitivity at the neural level.