Gender and gender agreement in bilingual native and non-native grammars: A view from child and adult functional-lexical mixings

Lingua

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 827-851

  Liceras, Juana M ^a   Fernández Fuertes, Raquel ^b   Perales, Susana ^c   Pérez Tattam, Rocío ^a   Spradlin, Kenton Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agree operation; Analogical criterion; Code mixing; Determiner Phrase; Functional lexical mixings; Grammatical Features Spell Out Hypothesis; Intrinsic Gender Agreement phi feature; Intrinsic Gender feature; Uninterpretable Gender Agreement phi feature; Uninterpretable Gender feature; Word internal code mixing

Indexed keywords

EID: 41349122220     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.05.006     Document Type: Article

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