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Gender Acquisition in Spanish
Effects of Language and Age
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Jessica Diebowski
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English
Published/Copyright:
2021
About this book
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.
- Second language and heritage language acquisition
- Gammatical gender in Spanish
- Effect of language external and internal factors
Author / Editor information
Jessica Diebowski, Wuppertal University, Germany.
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eBook published on:
April 6, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9783110703047
Hardcover published on:
April 6, 2021
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110702972
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
24
Main content:
320
Illustrations:
50
Tables:
80
Keywords for this book
Second Language Acquisition; Heritage Language Acquisition; Grammatical Gender; Spanish; Native Language Influence; Age of Exposure
Audience(s) for this book
Students and scholars of linguistics, Spanish and second language acquisition; professionals of Spanish as a second language
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