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dc.contributor.authorKlassen, Rachel
dc.contributor.authorLundquist, Bjørn
dc.contributor.authorWestergaard, Marit
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-05T08:38:13Z
dc.date.available2022-09-05T08:38:13Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-01
dc.description.abstractIn most studies on gender processing, native speakers of the same language are treated as a homogeneous group. The current study investigates to what extent an ongoing change in the gender system of Norwegian (a development from three to two genders, involving the loss of feminine) may be refected in processing. We carried out a gender decision task in which speakers were presented with 32 nouns of each gender (masculine, feminine, neuter) and asked to select the corresponding indefnite article. Based on these results, we identifed three diferent groups: three-gender speakers, two-gender speakers, and an unstable gender use group that used feminine gender to varying degrees. This division corresponded with clear diferences in RTs, the two-gender speakers being faster overall with no diference across conditions, the three-gender group being slower with masculine, and the unstable group being slower with both masculine and feminine. Thus, our results indicate that native speakers of the same language can in fact have diferent underlying representations of gender in the lexicon.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKlassen RHM, Lundquist B, Westergaard M. L1 Grammatical Gender Variation through the Representation in the Lexicon. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 2022en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2004710
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10936-022-09867-7
dc.identifier.issn0090-6905
dc.identifier.issn1573-6555
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/26631
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of Psycholinguistic Research
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/EXCELLENT SCIENCE/748966/EU/Multiple Perspectives on Grammatical Gender in the Bilingual Lexicon/GenBiLex/en_US
dc.relation.urihttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10936-022-09867-7
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2022 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleL1 Grammatical Gender Variation through the Representation in the Lexiconen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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