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Slides
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Abstract
Gender values within a language differ in frequency, distribution, and specificity, creating asymmetries between genders. These asymmetries have received growing attention in research on gender agreement processing, and ERP studies on Spanish have found that masculine and feminine agreement violations elicit distinct brain responses. However, differences in theoretical approach and study design make it difficult to draw firm conclusions about the direction and locus of these effects. In this talk, I present an ERP study investigating whether similar asymmetries arise between neuter and masculine gender in L1 speakers of Norwegian, and discuss the findings in light of theoretical concepts such as markedness and cue validity.
Bio
Sarah Cameron is a PhD candidate at ILN. Her thesis, submitted in June 2026, investigates grammatical gender processing in first- and second-language speakers of Norwegian. Her research interests lie in the neurocognition of language, particularly in second language acquisition.