Investigating Gender Assignment Strategies in Mixed Purepecha–Spanish Nominal Constructions

Investigating Gender Assignment Strategies in Mixed Purepecha–Spanish Nominal Constructions

Purepecha has no grammatical gender, whereas Spanish has a binary masculine–feminine system. In this paper we investigate how early sequential Purepecha–Spanish bilinguals assign gender to Purepecha nouns inserted into an otherwise Spanish utterance, using a director-matcher production task and an o...

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Main Authors: Kate Bellamy, M. Carmen Parafita Couto, Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-07-01
Series:Languages
Subjects:
code-switching
grammatical gender
mixed nominal constructions
Purepecha
Spanish
gender assignment strategies
task effect
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/3/3/28

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