Grammatical gender in bilingual Norwegian-Russian acquisition: The role of input and transparency

Bilingualism

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 197-214

  Rodina, Yulia ^a   Westergaard, Marit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

bilingualism; grammatical gender; Norwegian; quantitative qualitative differences; Russian

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941794343     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728915000668     Document Type: Article

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