Why do He and She Disagree: The Role of Binary Morphological Features in Grammatical Gender Agreement in German.

In many languages, grammatical gender is an inherent property of nouns and, as such, forms a basis for agreement relations between nouns and their dependent elements (e.g., adjectives, determiners).

Learning of novel compound nouns - A variant of lexical learning that requires intact verbal short-term memory.

Verbal short-term memory (vSTM) plays a crucial role in word learning, and patients with impaired vSTM have been demonstrated to fail on learning novel word forms. Word learning has exclusively been investigated with previously unknown or pseudowords. Several languages, however, make use of composition, i.

"I know your name, but not your number"--Patients with verbal short-term memory deficits are impaired in learning sequences of digits.

Studies on verbal learning in patients with impaired verbal short-term memory (vSTM) have revealed dissociations among types of verbal information. Patients with impaired vSTM are able to learn lists of known words but fail to acquire new word forms. This suggests that vSTM is involved in new word learning.

Selective impairment of masculine gender processing: evidence from a German aphasic.

The present single case study describes the performance of the German aphasic E.M. who exhibited a severe impairment of grammatical gender processing in masculine nouns but relatively spared performance regarding feminine and neuter ones.