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T1 The Access to Grammatical Number in Spanish Children and Adults
A1 Domínguez Martínez, Alberto
A1 Santos Álvarez, Anthea Gara
A1 Fu, Yang
A2 Psicología CognitivaSocial y Organizacional
K1 Grammatical number
K1 Lexical decision
K1 Plural processing
K1 Number acquisition
K1 Dominant frequency
AB In Spanish, the plural form in plural dominant frequency pairs, like “diente/dientes” [tooth/teeth], occurs more frequently than the corresponding singular form. On the other hand, forthe singular dominant frequency pairs such as “cometa/cometas” [kite/kites], the singularform is more common than the plural. The recognition of singular forms by adult readersis dependent on the dominance factor, while the identifcation of plural forms relies on thefrequency of the stem. Given that age and reading experience may infuence morphologicalprocessing of words, we investigate the representation of singulars and plurals in Spanishprimary school children in Third Grade (8/9) and Sixth Grade (11/12) and adults througha lexical decision task. Though children’s lexical decisions were twice as slow as adults,the pattern of morphological processing was consistent across ages: dominant plural formsresulted in decision times that were comparable to those of non-dominant singular forms,while recognition of singular-dominant forms was quicker than recognition of plural nondominant forms. It appears that singulars are accessed and stored in the lexical memory asseparate entities, while plurals depend on their morphological closer relatives, in this case,the singular forms.
YR 2023
FD 2023
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RD 28-jun-2024