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Scarna, Antonina; Ellis, Andrew W. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2002
Studied a bilingual Italian-English aphasic patient who was very poor in categorizing Italian nouns for grammatical gender in explicit metalinguistic tasks, and was at chance when gender could not be inferred from the word's phonology. However, she showed a good ability to modify adjectives to match the gender of nouns in a task that involved…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Bilingualism, English, Grammar