Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments IX
3. Contents XIII
4. List of figures XVII
5. List of tables XXI
6. Abbreviations XXIII
7. 1 Introduction 1
8. 2 Grammatical gender in Spanish 15
9. 3 Competing theories on the sources of variability in HLA and SLA 59
10. 4 The acquisition of gender by L1, 2L1 and L2 speakers 85
11. 5 The empirical study 107
12. 6 Discussion, implications and conclusions 203
13. References 237
14. Appendices 287
15. Subject index 319