Complexity matters: On gender agreement in Heritage Scandinavian

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue DEC, 2015, Pages

  Johannessen, Janne Bondi ^a   Larsson, Ida ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agreement; Attrition; Complexity; Declension class; Gender; Norwegian heritage language; Noun phrase; Swedish heritage language

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954204851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01842     Document Type: Article

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