Morphological Variability in Interlanguage Grammars: New Evidence From the Acquisition of Gender and Number in Italian Determiner Phrases and Direct Object Pronouns

Abstract In this paper, I investigate the phenomenon of morphological variability in the production of Italian determiners, descriptive adjectives, and direct object pronouns by adult English learners of Italian to determine whether morphological errors are the result of computational or represen...

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Main Author: Maurizio Santoro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Carleton University 2012-06-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics
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Online Access:https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/CJAL/article/view/19952