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Grammatical Gender Processing in Standard Arabic as a First and a Second Language ...
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Alamry, Ali. - : Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019
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The present dissertation investigates grammatical gender representation and processing in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) as a first (L1) and a second (L2) language. It mainly examines whether L2 can process gender agreement in a native-like manner, and the extent to which L2 processing is influenced by the properties of the L2 speakers’ L1. Additionally, it examines whether L2 gender agreement processing is influenced by noun animacy (animate and inanimate) and word order (verb-subject and subject-verb). A series of experiments using both online and offline techniques were conducted to address these questions. In all of the experiments, gender agreement between verb and nouns was examined. The first series of experiments examined native speakers of MSA (n=49) using a self-paced reading task (SPR), an event-related potential (ERP) experiment, and a grammaticality judgment (GJ) task. Results of these experiments revealed that native speakers were sensitive to grammatical violations. Native speakers showed longer ...
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Keyword:
Animacy effect; ERP; Gender agreement processing; L2 speakers of MSA; Modern standard Arabic; Self-paced reading task; word order effect
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-24204
http://ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/39965
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