Is grammatical gender considered arbitrary or semantically motivated? Evidence from young adult monolinguals, second language learners, and early bilinguals

2013 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedetta A. L. Bassetti
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
Grammatical Gender

Knowing versus producing

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigitta Keij ◽  
Leonie Cornips ◽  
Roeland van Hout ◽  
Aafke Hulk ◽  
Joanne van Emmerik
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
Grammatical Gender ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Gender Paradigm ◽  
Dutch Children

Dutch nouns are divided into two groups according to grammatical gender which is, among others, marked on the definite determiner: common nouns take the definite determiner de and neuter nouns take the definite determiner het. This study is unique in systematically investigating the acquisition of grammatical gender and the definite determiner in the production and knowledge data of the same Dutch children. Three groups of children were examined: (i) typically developing monolinguals (L1-TD: 6;7—9;11), (ii) monolinguals with Specific Language Impairment (L1-SLI: 8;4-12;0), and (iii) typically developing bilinguals, who are early second language learners (eL2: 6;7-10;0). The three groups of children reveal different stages in discovering that de and het cover the gender paradigm. At comparable ages, the L1-TD children have completed this paradigm discovery; however, the eL2 children have not yet completed it, and the L1- SLI children are only at the first stage of the discovery of the gender paradigm.

A longitudinal ERP study of language effects in beginning second language learners

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine J. Midgley ◽  
Laura N. Soskey ◽  
Phillip J. Holcomb ◽  
Jonathan Grainger
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
Language Effects
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