PMID- 21037930
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20211020
IS  - 1120-2726 (Print)
IS  - 1120-2726 (Linking)
VI  - 20
IP  - 2
DP  - 2008 Jan 1
TI  - Gender agreement and multiple referents.
PG  - 285-307
AB  - We report a new pattern of usage in current, spoken Italian that has implications 
      for both psycholinguistic models of language production and linguistic theories 
      of language change. In Italian, gender agreement is mandatory for both singular 
      and plural nouns. However, when two or more nouns of different grammatical gender 
      appear in a conjoined noun phrase (NP), masculine plural agreement is required. 
      In this study, we combined on-line and off-line methodologies in order to assess 
      the mechanisms involved in gender marking in the context of multiple referents. 
      The results of two pronoun production tasks showed that plural feminine agreement 
      was significantly more difficult than plural masculine agreement. In a separate 
      study using offline judgements of acceptability, we found that agreement 
      violations in Italian are tolerated more readily in the case of feminine 
      conjoined noun phrases (e.g., la mela e la banana 'the:fem apple:fem and the: fem 
      banana: fem') than masculine conjoined noun phrases (e.g., il fiore e il libro 
      'the:mas flower: mas and the:mas book:mas'). Implications of these results are 
      discussed both at the level of functional architecture within the language 
      production system and at the level of changes in language use.
FAU - Finocchiaro, Chiara
AU  - Finocchiaro C
FAU - Mahon, Bradford Z
AU  - Mahon BZ
FAU - Caramazza, Alfonso
AU  - Caramazza A
LA  - eng
GR  - R01 DC004542/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01 DC004542-04/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Italy
TA  - Riv Linguist
JT  - Rivista di linguistica
JID - 101536726
PMC - PMC2964885
MID - NIHMS213267
EDAT- 2008/01/01 00:00
MHDA- 2008/01/01 00:01
PMCR- 2010/10/27
CRDT- 2011/09/28 06:00
PHST- 2011/09/28 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2008/01/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/01/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 2010/10/27 00:00 [pmc-release]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Riv Linguist. 2008 Jan 1;20(2):285-307.