Grammatical gender processing in romance languages: Evidence from bare noun production in Italian and Spanish

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 335-347

  Paolieri, Daniela ^a   Lotto, Lorella ^b   Morales, Luis ^c   Bajo, Teresa ^c   Cubelli, Roberto ^a   Job, Remo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bare noun production; Grammatical gender; Lexical access; Picture word paradigm; Speech production

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMININITY; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ITALY; LANGUAGE; MALE; MASCULINITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPAIN; SPEECH; VOWEL; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 77951696405     PISSN: 09541446     EISSN: 14640635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09541440902916803     Document Type: Article

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