32.3791, Books: Gender Acquisition in Spanish: Diebowski

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Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 07:57:17
From: Birgit Sievert [Birgit.Sievert at degruyter.com]
Subject: Gender Acquisition in Spanish: Diebowski

 


Title: Gender Acquisition in Spanish 
Subtitle: Effects of Language and Age 
Series Title: Studies on Language Acquisition  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110703047/html 


Author: Jessica Diebowski

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110703047 Pages: 344 Price: U.S. $ 137.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110702972 Pages: 344 Price: U.S. $ 137.99


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)


Written In: English  (eng)

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