Cognitive predictors of generalization of Russian grammatical gender categories

Language Learning

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 127-153

  Kempe, Vera ^a   Brooks, Patricia J ^b   Kharkhurin, Anatoliy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Diminutives; Gender agreement; L2 learning; Nonverbal intelligence; Russian; Verbal working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950173207     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2009.00553.x     Document Type: Article

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