Gender Congruency Effects in Spanish: Behavioral Evidence from Noun Phrase Production by Ruixue Wu, Niels O. Schiller

“…It has been argued that the absence of the effect in Romance languages is due the fact that the gender-marking definite article is not exclusively dependent on the grammatical gender of the head noun, but also on its onset phonology (e.g., <i>lo zucchero</i> is ‘the sugar’ in Italian, not <i>il zucchero</i>, il being the default masculine determiner in Italian). …”
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