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The mechanisms underlying grammatical gender selection in language production: ...
Rita Sa-Leite, Ana; Luna, Karlos; Tomaz, Angela; Fraga, Isabel; Comesaña, MontserratGrammatical gender retrieval during language production has been largely addressed through the picture-word interference (PWI) paradigm, with the aim of capturing the so-called gender congruency effect (GCE). In the PWI paradigm, participants name target pictures while ignoring superimposed written distractor nouns. The GCE shows faster responses when target and distractor nouns share the same gender than when ...
Of beavers and tables: the role of animacy in the processing of grammatical gen...
Sa-Leite, Ana Rita; Haro, Juan; Comesaña, Montserrat; Fraga, IsabelGrammatical gender processing during language production has classically been studied using the so-called picture-word interference (PWI) task. In this procedure, participants are presented with pictures they must name using target nouns while ignoring superimposed written distractor nouns. Variations in response times are expected depending on the congruency between the gender values of targets and distractors...
Grammatical gender processing in bilinguals: An analytic review
Dias, Ana Rita Sá Leite; Fraga, Isabel; Comesaña, MontserratIn this review article, we analyze how grammatical gender is represented and processed in the bilingual mind. To that end, we review the data from 13 existing behavioral studies of mainly late second language (L2) learners on the so-called gender congruency (GC) effect (facilitated processing for translation equivalents with the same gender, in comparison to those with a different gender) in L2 production and c...
Lexico-syntactic interactions during the processing of temporally ambiguous L2 ...
Soares, Ana Paula; Oliveira, Helena Mendes; Ferreira, Marisa; Comesaña, Montserrat; Macedo, António Filipe; Ferre, Pilar; Acuna-Farina, CarlosThere is extensive evidence showing that bilinguals activate the lexical and the syntactic representations of both languages in a nonselective way. However, the extent to which the lexical and the syntactic levels of representations interact during second language (L2) sentence processing and how those interactions are modulated by L2 proficiency remain unclear. This paper aimed to directly address these issues...
I saw this somewhere else: the Spanish Ambiguous Words (SAW) database
Fraga, Isabel; Padrón, Isabel; Perea, Manuel; Comesaña, MontserratThe present paper describes the Spanish Ambiguous Words (SAW) database, which comprises 210 words (133 polysemous and 77 homographs). Three-hundred and fifteen Spanish university students took part in the study on which SAW is based. First, subjective word meanings and senses were collected by means of a meaning retrieval task. Two judges then assigned participants’ responses to different categories of meaning ...
Memory for emotional words: The role of semantic relatedness, encoding task and...
Ferre, Pilar; Fraga, Isabel; Comesaña, Montserrat; Sanchez-Casas, RosaEmotional stimuli have been repeatedly demonstrated to be better remembered than neutral ones. The aim of the present study was to test whether this advantage in memory is mainly produced by the affective content of the stimuli or it can be rather accounted for by factors such as semantic relatedness or type of encoding task. The valence of the stimuli (positive, negative and neutral words that could be either ...
The interplay of phonology and orthography in visual cognate word recognition: ...
Comesaña, Montserrat; Sánchez-Casas, R.; Soares, A. P.; Pinheiro, Ana P.; Rauber, Andréia Schurt; Frade, Sofia; Fraga, IsabelThis study examined the role of phonological and orthographic overlap in the recognition of cognate words by recording electrophysiological and behavioral data. One hundred and ninety-two words were selected: 96 cognate words listed according to their phonological and orthographic overlap vs. 96 noncognate words. Twenty-four proficient European Portuguese-English bilinguals performed a silent reading task with ...
El papel de la animacidad en la resolución de ambigüedades sintácticas en portu...
Soares, Ana Paula; Fraga, Isabel; Comesaña, Montserrat; Piñeiro, AnaEn este trabajo se evaluó el papel de la animacidad en la desambiguación de cláusulas de relativo con doble antecedente en portugués europeo (PE). El estudio de cómo resuelve el procesador este tipo de ambigüedades ha sido objeto de gran interés en la investigación; sin embargo, en PE ésta ha sido escasa y poco consistente. Además, dado que la literatura más reciente ha destacado la relevancia de variables extr...
O léxico bilingue: Um léxico ou dois? Eis a questão…
Comesaña, Montserrat; Fraga, Isabel; Perea, Manuel; Pinheiro, Ana P.[Excerto] O léxico mental representa a ponte entre a mensagem linguística recebida e a interpretação dessa mensagem (van Hell, 1998). Compreender de que forma os indivíduos bilingues reconhecem e dizem as palavras em cada um dos seus idiomas tem sido objecto de grande interesse no âmbito da Psicolinguística. As investigações passadas acerca da organização do léxico bilingue centraram-se em aspectos tais como: (...