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  • Cognitive Science
  • Linguistics

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  • Grammatical gender processing is crucial in language comprehension.
  • Previous research focused on unambiguous gender assignments, neglecting variable cases.
  • Spanish dual-gendered nouns present a unique case of variable gender assignment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate Spanish speakers' sensitivity to grammatical gender violations.
  • To examine processing of regular versus dual-gendered nouns using pupillometry.
  • To explore context-dependent language processing strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Corpus search on X (formerly Twitter) for dual-gendered noun usage.
  • Pupillometry to measure physiological responses to gender violations.
  • Analysis of pupil response to grammatical gender agreement in Spanish.

Main Results:

  • Pupil response indicated sensitivity to gender violations in regular nouns.
  • No significant pupil response to gender violations was observed for dual-gendered nouns.
  • Spanish speakers exhibit variable processing strategies for grammatical gender.

Conclusions:

  • Grammatical gender processing is not uniform and depends on noun type.
  • Contextual and distributional information influences language processing strategies.
  • Studying variable linguistic phenomena with naturalistic data reveals processing mechanisms.