The vulnerability of gender on determiners in L1, 2L1 and L2 acquisition

The acquisition of gender has been reported to be problematic for some groups of learners acquiring Germanic or Romance languages. It has been shown that L1 learners do better in gender acquisition than others, like bilingual children, child L2 learners and adult L2 learners. The reason for these di...

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Main Authors: Elisabeth van der Linden, Aafke Hulk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2009-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/the_vulnerability_of_gender_on_determiners_in_l1_2l1_and_l2_acquisition