Grammatical gender and the notion of default: Insights from language acquisition

Lingua

Volumn 137, Issue , 2013, Pages 128-144

  Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria ^a,b   Hulk, Aafke ^c,d  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d NIAS ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Grammatical gender; Learnability; Learner default; Linguistic default

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885749424     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2013.09.001     Document Type: Article

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