Gender Bender: Gender errors in L2 pronoun production

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 119-139

  Antón Méndez, Inés ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Language production; Pre verbal message; Pronouns; Second language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 77952096632     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-009-9129-z     Document Type: Article

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