Exploring Grammatical Gender Agreement in Russian Learners of Greek: An Eye-Tracking Study
This study investigates the acquisition of grammatical gender in Russian learners of Greek. Agreement in Determiner-Noun (Det-N) and Adjective-Noun (Adj-N) dependencies is explored through eye-tracking registration in a reading-based design. Twenty-four intermediate learners read short texts embedde...
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| description | This study investigates the acquisition of grammatical gender in Russian learners of Greek. Agreement in Determiner-Noun (Det-N) and Adjective-Noun (Adj-N) dependencies is explored through eye-tracking registration in a reading-based design. Twenty-four intermediate learners read short texts embedded with agreement violations, and then responded to a comprehension task. The study implemented a two-level triangulation by drawing its stimuli from the Greek Learner Corpus II (GLCII) and contrasting, at a first level, the findings with comparable offline data that were previously obtained from the same corpus. The second level entailed a contrast between the online evidence and the offline data that were collected through a post-reading questionnaire right after the online eye-tracking session. This questionnaire explored whether longer fixations on agreement violations are associated with explicit awareness of the study’s focus. To anticipate the outcome of the study, the gender agreement data suggests that the abstract gender feature is present in the developing grammar of Russian learners of Greek. Moreover, the participants seem to effectively deal with the syntactic computations underlying nominal agreement, though efficacy varies across the structures that have been examined. Apart from this, certain suggestions are made considering the research paradigm followed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-95627a231c1e4f4fb50d849d3d839ed12023-12-22T14:20:55ZengMDPI AGLanguages2226-471X2023-11-018426510.3390/languages8040265Exploring Grammatical Gender Agreement in Russian Learners of Greek: An Eye-Tracking StudyAlexandros Tantos0Nikolaos Amvrazis1Konstantinos Angelou2Kosmas Kosmidis3Department of Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, GreeceDepartment of Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, GreeceDepartment of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, GreeceDepartment of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, GreeceThis study investigates the acquisition of grammatical gender in Russian learners of Greek. Agreement in Determiner-Noun (Det-N) and Adjective-Noun (Adj-N) dependencies is explored through eye-tracking registration in a reading-based design. Twenty-four intermediate learners read short texts embedded with agreement violations, and then responded to a comprehension task. The study implemented a two-level triangulation by drawing its stimuli from the Greek Learner Corpus II (GLCII) and contrasting, at a first level, the findings with comparable offline data that were previously obtained from the same corpus. The second level entailed a contrast between the online evidence and the offline data that were collected through a post-reading questionnaire right after the online eye-tracking session. This questionnaire explored whether longer fixations on agreement violations are associated with explicit awareness of the study’s focus. To anticipate the outcome of the study, the gender agreement data suggests that the abstract gender feature is present in the developing grammar of Russian learners of Greek. Moreover, the participants seem to effectively deal with the syntactic computations underlying nominal agreement, though efficacy varies across the structures that have been examined. Apart from this, certain suggestions are made considering the research paradigm followed.https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/4/265grammatical genderagreementeye-trackingtriangulationSLA |
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| title | Exploring Grammatical Gender Agreement in Russian Learners of Greek: An Eye-Tracking Study |
| title_full | Exploring Grammatical Gender Agreement in Russian Learners of Greek: An Eye-Tracking Study |
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| title_short | Exploring Grammatical Gender Agreement in Russian Learners of Greek: An Eye-Tracking Study |
| title_sort | exploring grammatical gender agreement in russian learners of greek an eye tracking study |
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