Sensitivity to violations of gender agreement in native and nonnative Spanish: An eye-movement investigation

Language Learning

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 503-535

  Keating, Gregory D ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Failed functional features hypothesis; Full transfer full access hypothesis; Gender agreement; Sentence processing; Shallow structure hypothesis; Spanish; Structural distance; Universal Grammar (UG)

Indexed keywords

EID: 68849127916     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2009.00516.x     Document Type: Article

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