{"id":386,"date":"2024-03-07T20:11:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T19:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kamdlu.home.amu.edu.pl\/?page_id=386"},"modified":"2026-03-05T19:34:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:34:35","slug":"bisags-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/kamdlu.home.amu.edu.pl\/?page_id=386","title":{"rendered":"BISAGS Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

B<\/strong>idirectional I<\/strong>nteractions between S<\/strong>ymmetric and A<\/strong>symmetric Grammatical G<\/strong>ender S<\/strong>ystems in Bilingual Language Comprehension and Production<\/p>\n

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Funding: National Science Centre, Poland (OPUS 25)<\/span><\/span>
<\/span>I<\/span>D number: 2023\/49\/B\/HS2\/00173<\/span><\/span>
<\/span>Period: 2024-2027 (36 months)<\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span>Project Team: Kamil D\u0142ugosz (PI), Miko\u0142aj Sobkowiak, Anna Olszewska, Anna Ska\u0142ba, Natalia Ko\u0142aczek<\/p>\n

Description
\n<\/strong>Research has shown that both languages of a bilingual are always active, and it is impossible to switch off one of them. The co-activation of languages has an important impact on how they are produced and comprehended. The aim of BISAGS is to investigate this phenomenon with respect to grammatical gender. In languages with grammatical gender, each noun is classified into one of several classes. For example, the Polish noun\u00a0drzewo <\/i>(\u2018tree\u2019) is neuter and ksia\u0328z\u0307ka <\/i>(\u2018book\u2019) is feminine. Studies have found that bilinguals activate the grammatical gender information of their first language when using a second language. If the gender of a noun is the same in the first and second language, the processing of that noun is facilitated. Yet, what happens when languages differ in the number and type of gender classes? Can grammatical gender in a second language affect gender processing in the first language?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The aim of BISAGS is to explore bidirectional interactions between two grammatical gender systems during language production and comprehension by Polish native speakers learning German or Danish. Polish is similar to German (both languages distinguish three gender classes: masculine, feminine, and neuter) but differs from Danish (which distinguishes only two classes: common and neuter). BISAGS also focuses on the role of the following factors that can potentially modulate the interactions between grammatical gender systems: L2 proficiency level, linguistic context (bare noun, noun phrase, sentence), and cognate status.<\/span><\/p>\n

BISAGS is using comprehension and production experiments, such as translation recognition and picture naming, as well as visual world eye-tracking. Participants are adult native speakers of Polish learning German or Danish as L2 at different proficiency levels in instructed settings.<\/p>\n

BISAGS will contribute to the ongoing debate about language co-activation in bilinguals, thereby advancing our knowledge of bilingual processing. Based on the data from language pairs that have not been studied before, BISAGS will shed new light on the processing and architecture of the grammatical gender system in the bilingual mental lexicon.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Research output<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Conference Presentations and Posters
\n<\/span><\/strong>D\u0142ugosz, Kamil, Ska\u0142ba, Anna, Sobkowiak, Miko\u0142aj & Olszewska, Anna (2025): Grammatical gender processing in Polish-German and Polish-Danish bilinguals: A visual world eye-tracking study. Applied Linguistics in the Face of the Challenges of a Changing World Conference<\/em>. Pozna\u0144, Poland.<\/p>\n

D\u0142ugosz, Kamil, Sobkowiak, Miko\u0142aj & Ska\u0142ba, Anna (2025): The gender congruency effect in L2 Danish and German: The role of L1-L2 gender system similarities and L2 proficiency. EuroSLA 34<\/em>, Norway.<\/p>\n

D\u0142ugosz, Kamil, Sobkowiak, Miko\u0142aj & Olszewska, Anna (2025): The representation of asymmetric and dissimilar gender systems in the mental lexicon of Polish-Danish bilinguals. 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism<\/em>. Donostia-San Sebasti\u00e1n, Spain.<\/span><\/p>\n

D\u0142ugosz, Kamil (2025): Bidirectional interactions between symmetric and asymmetric grammatical gender systems in bilingual language comprehension and production. Center for Language, Brain and Learning (C-LaBL) Lunch Seminar<\/em>, Troms\u00f8, Norway.<\/p>\n

D\u0142ugosz, Kamil & Olszewska, Anna (2024): Cross-linguistic gender congruency effects in sentence context depend on gender transparency and L2 proficiency. EuroSLA 33<\/em>, Montpellier, France.
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Publications
\n<\/strong>D\u0142ugosz, K., Ska\u0142ba, A., Olszewska, A. & Sobkowiak, M. (in press). Bidirectional interactions between L1 and L2 gender systems: A visual world eye-tracking study with Polish-German bilinguals. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

D\u0142ugosz, K. & Sobkowiak, M. (in press). The representation of asymmetric and dissimilar gender systems in the mental lexicon of Polish-Danish bilinguals. Journal of Germanic Linguistics<\/em>.<\/p>\n

D\u0142ugosz, K. & Olszewska, A. (2024). The gender congruency effect in sentence context depends on gender transparency and L2 proficiency: A self-paced reading study with Polish-German bilinguals. International Journal of Bilingualism<\/em>. Online First.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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