Measuring Adult Heritage Language Lexical Proficiency for Studies on Facilitative Processing of Gender

The present study analyzes individual differences in the facilitative processing of grammatical gender by heritage speakers of Spanish, asking whether these differences correlate with lexical proficiency. Results from an eye-tracking study in the Visual World Paradigm replicate prior findings that,...

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Published in:	Languages
Main Authors:	Zuzanna Fuchs, Emma Kealey, Esra Eldem-Tunç, Leo Mermelstein, Linh Pham, Anna Runova, Yue Chen, Metehan Oğuz, Seoyoon Hong, Catherine Pan, JK Subramony
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2025-08-01
Subjects:	grammatical gender heritage languages lexical proficiency eye-tracking Spanish
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/10/8/189