Distance of adjective Sample Clauses

Distance of adjective. Xxxxxxx (2009) conducted an eye movement investigation on violations of gender agreement in Spanish. He showed the participants sentences involving gender agreement between a noun and a modifying adjective. The adjectives occurred in three different positions: (1) immediately following the noun, (2) in the verb phrase, and (3) in a subordinate clause. Half of the sentences were grammatically correct and the other half were grammatically incorrect. By analysing the eye movements of the participants, Xxxxxxx could make a comparison between native and non-native speakers of Spanish. The results showed that advanced learners of Spanish are sensitive to errors made in the gender of Spanish adjectives when the adjective follows the noun immediately. This shows that gender agreement is, to a certain level, acquirable in adult SLA. However, distance plays a role in gender agreement processing. It appeared that the non-native speakers are not as sensitive to gender agreement as native speakers are when the adjective is placed further away from the noun. Learners with a beginning and intermediate level were not sensitive to gender errors at all, which shows that the feature gender agreement is acquired at a later stage. Another study on the distance of adjective agreement was conducted by X'Xxxxxx and Xxx Xxxxxx (2011). They also examined whether evaluation of agreement becomes more difficult when the distance between the noun and the adjective increases, but with a different method. With the use of recordings of brain electrical activity, ERP’s (event-related potential), they found other results than Xxxxxxx did. X’Xxxxxx and Xxx Xxxxxx also used different phrases with different distances between the noun and the adjective in their method. Nonetheless, the results showed that the participants were equally able to spot the correct and incorrect forms of gender agreement when the adjective had a different position. However, all nouns and adjectives were singular and had a clear gender marking -o or -a as suffix, with no exceptions. Xxxxxx Xxxxx (2012) used EEG (electroencephalography) to examine the processing of nominal agreement in the second language Spanish of native English speakers. One component of his study also focused on how structural distance influences the accuracy of nominal agreement. He made a comparison between native speakers and nonnative speakers of Spanish by looking at electrical activiy of the brain, as X'Xxxxxx and Xxx Xxxxxx (2011) did as wel...
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