Revisiting Masculine and Feminine Grammatical Gender in Spanish: Linguistic, Psycholinguistic, and Neurolinguistic Evidence

Research on grammatical gender processing has generally assumed that grammatical gender can be treated as a uniform construct, resulting in a body of literature in which different gender classes are collapsed into single analysis. The present work reviews linguistic, psycholinguistic, and neurolingu...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Psychology
Main Authors:	Anne L. Beatty-Martínez, Paola E. Dussias
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-01
Subjects:	grammatical gender gender assignment language processing language variation Spanish
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00751/full

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