Gender-number dissociations in sentence production in spanish: 2710

In this study, we present evidence from, various sources to support the claim that gender and number have different processing loci in Spanish. After a short review of current linguistic accounts of the representation of gender and number in Spanish, we argue for a dissociation in the processing of gender and number information during sentence production, on the assumption that gender information is lexically specified whereas number information is retrieved and used in structure-building processes. Drawing on a taxonomy proposed for gender in Spanish nouns and adjectives, we report an analysis of speech error patterns and a study of word exchanges by instruction that provide converging evidence for our claims on dissociation. We also discuss the implications of our results for linguistic accounts of the representation of gender and number and for current psycholinguistic models of sentence production. *

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