37.159, Books: The Role of Lexico-Syntactic Features in Noun Phrase Production and Comprehension: Wu (2025)

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Date: 12-Jan-2026
From: Jan Martin [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: The Role of Lexico-Syntactic Features in Noun Phrase Production and Comprehension: Wu (2025)


Title: The Role of Lexico-Syntactic Features in Noun Phrase Production
and Comprehension
Subtitle: Insights from Spanish and Chinese in Unilingual and
Bilingual Contexts
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
(LOT)
           http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: https://dx.medra.org/10.48273/LOT0705

Author(s): Ruixue Wu

Paperback
ISBN: 978-94-6093-490-2
Pages: 309
Price: 41,00 euros

Abstract:

This dissertation investigates how bilingual speakers navigate
lexico-syntactic features, including grammatical gender, classifier
systems, and the linear order of adjectives and nouns, across Spanish
and Chinese in both unilingual and bilingual contexts. The central
focus is on how early Spanish–Chinese bilinguals, particularly those
residing in Barcelona, Spain, process and produce grammatical gender
in Spanish and classifiers in Mandarin Chinese. It also examines how
these bilinguals resolve syntactic conflicts arising from differences
in adjective placement across the two languages, where Spanish
typically places adjectives postnominally while Chinese places them
prenominally. Drawing on behavioral and, where relevant,
electrophysiological data, and employing a multi-task approach that
integrates elicitation, repetition, and acceptability judgment tasks,
this dissertation provides a comprehensive account of bilingual
morphosyntactic processing in both experimental and semi-naturalistic
contexts. It also sheds light on how bilinguals negotiate
cross-linguistic grammatical differences during code-switching, with
particular attention to gender assignment, classifier selection, and
adjective placement. The findings contribute to broader discussions in
bilingualism and psycholinguistics by illuminating the mechanisms
through which bilinguals reconcile distinct grammatical systems in
language production and comprehension.

Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics

Subject Language(s): Mandarin Chinese (cmn)
                     Spanish (spa)

Language Family(ies): Chinese
                      Spanish based




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