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Beyond Default Masculine: Semantic Influence on English Loanword Gender in Contemporary Spoken Italian

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Abstract

International Journal of Bilingualism, Ahead of Print.
Aims and objectives:This study addresses fundamental questions about how grammatical gender systems accommodate foreign lexical items by examining English loanwords in contemporary Italian. I investigate whether gender assignment operates through active ...