Gender Acquisition in Spanish : : Effects of Language and Age / / Jessica Diebowski.
The comparative investigation of the acquisition of gender in Spanish by early and late bilinguals of different language combinations is highly debated and crucial as the phenomenon of gender involves grammatical features that differ in all three languages under investigation. Against this backgroun...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] ,
61 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XXIV, 320 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Grammatical gender in Spanish -- 3 Competing theories on the sources of variability in HLA and SLA -- 4 The acquisition of gender by L1, 2L1 and L2 speakers -- 5 The empirical study -- 6 Discussion, implications and conclusions -- References -- Appendices -- Subject index |
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Summary: | The comparative investigation of the acquisition of gender in Spanish by early and late bilinguals of different language combinations is highly debated and crucial as the phenomenon of gender involves grammatical features that differ in all three languages under investigation. Against this background, both early and late bilinguals face an arduous learning task which differs in complexity. Couched within a generative framework, the empirical study focuses on 257 participants with different levels of proficiency in Spanish ranging from low to advanced, and through a series of tests aims to discover which extra-linguistic and intra-linguistic factors act as triggers for non-native outcomes in adult heritage speakers and L2 learners. The observed morphological variability is argued not to stem from a representational (i.e. syntactic) deficit, but rather from a mapping problem in L2 learners and heritage speakers. Successful attainment in terms of gender is possible but dependent on the interplay between various extralinguistic and linguistic factors. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110703047 9783110750720 9783110750706 9783110749434 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110754117 9783110753882 |
ISSN: | 1861-4248 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110703047 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jessica Diebowski. |