Gender assignment and gender agreement in adult bilinguals and second language learners of french

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 150-179

  Kupisch, Tanja ^a,b   Akpinar, Deniz ^a,b   Stöhr, Antje ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

French; Gender; Simultaneous bilingualism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989375692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18799264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/lab.3.2.02kup     Document Type: Article

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