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Abstract:
Sagarra and Herschensohn’s article examines English L2 learners’ knowledge of Spanish gender
and number agreement and their sensitivity to gender and number agreement violations (e.g. *El
ingeniero presenta el prototipo *famosa/*famosos en la conferencia) during real-time sentence
processing. It raises some interesting questions that are central to both acquisition and processing
research. In the following paper, I discuss a selection of these topics, for instance, what types
of knowledge may or may not be available/accessible during real-time L2 processing at different
proficiency levels, what the differences may be between the processing of number versus gender
concord, and perhaps most importantly, the problem of how to characterize the relationship
between the grammar and the parser, both in general terms and in the context of language
acquisition.
