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morphosyntax, grammatical gender, code-switching, bilingual mental lexicon, L1-L2 asymmetric gender systems, L2 acquisition, psycholinguistics
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Employment (2)

UiT Norges arktiske universitet: Tromso, Troms, NO

2017-08-01 to present | MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow (Language Acquisition, Variation, and Attrition Group)
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Rachel Klassen

University of Ottawa: Ottawa, ON, CA

2010-09-01 to 2017-07-31
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Rachel Klassen

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Ottawa: Ottawa, ON, CA

2016 | PhD Hispanic Linguistics
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Rachel Klassen

University of Ottawa: Ottawa, ON, CA

2011 | Master of Arts: Spanish
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Rachel Klassen

Wilfrid Laurier University: Waterloo, ON, CA

2008 | Bachelor of Arts: Honours Languages
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Professional activities (2)

AURORA Outstanding: Tromsø, NO

2018-09-01 to present
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Rachel Klassen

European Second Language Association: York, GB

2011-09-01 to present
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Rachel Klassen

Funding (5)

Multiple Perspectives on Grammatical Gender in the Bilingual Lexicon (GenBiLex)

2017-08 to 2019-07 | Grant
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 748966
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Rachel Klassen

Asymmetric Grammatical Gender Systems in the Bilingual Mental Lexicon

2013 to 2015 | Grant
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (ON, CA)
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Rachel Klassen

Grammatical Gender in Spanish-German Bilinguals

2012 to 2013 | Grant
Ontario Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development (ON, CA)
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Rachel Klassen

PhD Hispanic Linguistics

2011 to 2016 | Award
University of Ottawa (ON, CA)
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Rachel Klassen

MA Spanish

2010 to 2011 | Award
University of Ottawa (ON, CA)
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Rachel Klassen

Works (30)

L1 Grammatical Gender Variation through the Representation in the Lexicon

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
2023-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Rachel Klassen; Björn Lundquist; Marit Westergaard
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Interactions between lexical and syntactic L1-L2 overlap: Effects of gender congruency on L2 sentence processing in L1 Spanish-L2 German speakers

Applied Psycholinguistics
2022-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Rachel Klassen; Nadine Kolb; Holger Hopp; Marit Westergaard
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Compuestos N-N y derivación en español y portugués brasileño: en la encrucijada morfología, sintaxis y semántica

Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Juana M. Liceras; Rachel Klassen; Isabel Contro Castaldo
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The representation of gender in the mind of Spanish-English bilinguals: Insights from code-switched Adjectival Predicates

Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
2017-05-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Rachel Klassen; Juana M. Liceras
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The Acquisition and Processing of Spanish and Portuguese Morphosyntax: Theoretical and Experimental Issues

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics
2016-12 | Journal issue or edition
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Rachel Klassen

When masculine as default supercedes L1 transfer: Bilingual speakers of languages with asymmetric gender systems

Language Acquisition Beyond Parameters: Studies in honour of Juana M. Liceras
2016-12 | Book chapter
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Rachel Klassen

Asymmetric grammatical gender systems in the bilingual mental lexicon

2016-08 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Rachel Klassen

Language dominance and language nativeness

Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US
2016-08 | Book chapter
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Rachel Klassen
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The representation of headedness in the mind of non-native Spanish speakers: Evidence from compounding and derivation

26th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association
2016-08 | Conference paper
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Rachel Klassen

What code-switching reveals about the nature of asymmetric gender systems in the bilingual mental lexicon

26th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association
2016-08 | Conference paper
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Rachel Klassen

Spanish evaluative affixes and the representation of headedness in the mind of the speaker: An inflection-derivation divide?

46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
2016-03 | Conference paper
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Rachel Klassen

The representation of asymmetric grammatical gender systems in the bilingual mental lexicon

Probus
2016-01-01 | Journal article
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Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact

2015 | Edited book
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Rachel Klassen

Heritage speaker processing strategies: An eye-tracking study

Lost in Transmission Workshop: The Role of Attrition and Input in Heritage Language Development
2015-10 | Conference paper
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Rachel Klassen

Anaphora resolution in the non-native Spanish grammar of French and English speakers: The role (or lack thereof) of cross-linguistic structural similarity

Romance Turn 7
2015-10-01 | Conference paper
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Rachel Klassen

The production of code-switched concord and agreement structures: A new perspective on the mental representation of gender in the mind of the bilingual

Romance Turn 7
2015-10-01 | Conference paper
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Rachel Klassen

On the anaphoric interpretation of null and overt pronouns: Does superficial structural similarity have any predictive power?

International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech
2015-09 | Conference paper
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Rachel Klassen

Compounding and derivation in Spanish: Do evaluative affixes constitute evidence for the representation of headedness in the mind of native and nonnative speakers?

Simposio Internacional de Bilingüismo y Educación Bilingüe en América Latina VI
2015-08 | Conference paper
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Rachel Klassen

Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous bilingual acquisition: Hindrance or help?

Simposio Internacional de Bilingüismo y Educación Bilingüe en América Latina VI
2015-08 | Conference paper
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Rachel Klassen

Compounding and derivation: On the ‘promiscuity’ of derivational affixes

Bilingual morphology at the crossroads: Multidisciplinary perspectives on word structure
2015-05-20 | Conference paper
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Rachel Klassen

Parsing strategies in code-switched relative clause constructions: An eye-tracking study

Boston University Conference on Language Development 39
2014-11-07 | Conference paper
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Rachel Klassen

On the status of gender assignment and gender agreement in the mind of the bilingual: Evidence from code-switched structures

UIC Bilingualism Forum
2014-10 | Conference paper
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Rachel Klassen

Bilingual lexical access: The gender transfer – gender default paradox

9th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon
2014-09-30 | Conference paper
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Rachel Klassen

A syntactic account of differences in the processing and production of code-switched concord and agreement structures

Romance Turn 6
2014-09-18 | Conference paper
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Rachel Klassen

Native and non-native speakers’ intuitions about grammatical gender: More on the status of the ’analogical criterion’ in codeswitched structures

24th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association
2014-09-03 | Conference paper
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Rachel Klassen

Feature valuation in concord and agreement structures: One or two puzzles?

44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
2014-05 | Conference paper
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Rachel Klassen

On the representation of gender in the mind of the bilingual: The view from the interpretation and production of concord and agreement code-switched structures

24th Colloquium on Generative Grammar
2014-05 | Conference paper
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Rachel Klassen

Non-similar grammatical gender systems in the mental lexicon: Evidence for L1-L2 gender integration?’

Boston University Conference on Language Development 38
2013-11-01 | Conference paper
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Rachel Klassen

Grammatical gender systems in the mental lexicon: Insights from neuter in Spanish-German bilinguals

International Conference on Multilingualism
2013-10 | Conference poster
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Rachel Klassen

Parsing strategies of Spanish heritage speakers: Ambiguous relative clause attachment in code-switched sentences

12th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
2013-04 | Conference paper
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Rachel Klassen