Gender as a complex feature

Language Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue , 2014, Pages 5-17

  Audring, Jenny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agreement; Assignment; Complexity; Features; Gender; Learnability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899619297     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2013.10.003     Document Type: Article

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