Grammatical Gender in American Norwegian Heritage Language: Stability or attrition?

This paper investigates possible attrition/change in the gender system of Norwegian heritage language spoken in America. Based on data from 50 speakers in the Corpus of American Norwegian Speech (CANS), we show that the three-gender system is to some extent retained, although considerable overgenera...

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Autors principals: Terje eLohndal, Marit eWestergaard
Format: Article
Idioma:English
Publicat: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-03-01
Col·lecció:Frontiers in Psychology
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Accés en línia:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00344/full