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Fernández Fuertes, Raquel Gómez Carrero, Tamara Liceras, Juana M. 2024-03-18T08:40:44Z 2024-03-18T08:40:44Z 2024 Second Language Research, 2024, vol. 0, n. 0. 0267-6583 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/66773 10.1177/02676583241232221 Second Language Research 1477-0326 Producción Científica Codeswitching has been used as a tool to investigate how the properties of the two language systems interact in the bilingual mind with relatively few studies investigating bilingual children. We target two groups of L1-Spanish–L2-English children in Spain to address language activation and language inhibition in the processing of codeswitching between a determiner (DET) and a noun (N). We investigate how the mental representation of the formal features involved is responsible for the sensitivity to grammatical gender, which in turn affects how bilinguals’ language activation and inhibition processes are at play and shape processing. We target both the directionality of the switch (English-DET–Spanish-N vs. Spanish-DET–English-N) and the type of implicit gender agreement mechanism (in the case of Spanish-DET–English-N switches) by using offline acceptability judgment data and eyetracking during reading data. Results suggest lower processing costs of English DET switches and higher ones of non-congruent Spanish DET switches. We interpret the preference for classifying the non-gendered Ns along the lines of the gendered Ns in the gendered language as evidence for the integrated representation hypothesis which states that both Ns depicting the same concept are connected in the mind of the bilingual. Junta de Castilla y Leon- FEDER (grant number VA009P17) Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación y Ministerio de Universidades (grant number PGC2018-097693-B-I00) Junta de Castilla y Leon- Fondo Social Europeo (grant number EDU/556/2019) application/pdf eng Sage Journals info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ © 2024 The Authors Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Bilingüismo Sociolingüistica Codeswitching Bilingual children Inhibition-activation Cambio de código Niños bilingües Inhibición-activación 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas Activation and local inhibition in the bilingual child’s processing of codeswitching info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02676583241232221 SI