The Role of Language Experience in the Acquisition of Spanish Gender Agreement: A Study with Nonce Nouns

Why is learning the gender of nouns so difficult for some bilinguals? We test the hypothesis that different language learning backgrounds or life experience with Spanish determine how learners follow different morphosyntactic cues for gender assignment in Spanish by testing learners with early and l...

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Main Authors: Silvina Montrul, Sara Ann Mason, Andrew Armstrong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-01-01
Series:Languages
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/2/45