Possessive Processing in Bilingual Comprehension

dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage	904
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue	3
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage	941
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume	73
dc.contributor.affiliation	Lago, Sol;
dc.contributor.affiliation	Stone, Kate;
dc.contributor.affiliation	Oltrogge, Elise;
dc.contributor.affiliation	Veríssimo, João;
dc.contributor.author	Lago, Sol
dc.contributor.author	Stone, Kate
dc.contributor.author	Oltrogge, Elise
dc.contributor.author	Veríssimo, João
dc.date.accessioned	2025-09-08T14:05:39Z
dc.date.available	2025-09-08T14:05:39Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.date.updated	2023-10-10T20:05:15Z
dc.description.abstract	Second language (L2) learners make gender errors with possessive pronouns. In production, these errors are modulated by the gender match between the possessor and possessee noun. We examined whether this so‐called match effect extends to L2 comprehension by attempting to replicate a recent study on gender predictions in first language (L1) German speakers (Stone, Veríssimo, et al., 2021). By comparing Spanish and English learners of L2 German whose languages have different possessive constraints, we were able to examine whether the match effect was modulated by the participants’ L1. A first experiment suggested that predictions and match effects were absent in setups with complex visual displays. A second experiment with simpler displays successfully elicited predictions and match effects, but their size was comparable in Spanish and English speakers, inconsistent with crosslinguistic influence. We interpret our results as evidence that processing difficulties with possessives result from memory interference that impacts both L1 and L2 comprehenders.
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dc.identifier.doi	10.1111/lang.12556
dc.identifier.uri	http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/3675
dc.language.iso	en
dc.relation.issn	1467-9922
dc.relation.journal	Language Learning	en
dc.rights	CC BY 4.0
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:420
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:370
dc.subject.field	englishstudies
dc.subject.field	linguistics
dc.subject.field	englishlanguageteaching
dc.title	Possessive Processing in Bilingual Comprehension	en
dc.type	article
dc.type.version	publishedVersion