Grammatical gender in American Norwegian heritage language: Stability or attrition?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue MAR, 2016, Pages

  Lohndal, Terje ^a,b   Westergaard, Marit ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acquisition; American Norwegian; Declension class; Gender; Heritage language

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963657200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00344     Document Type: Article

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