Processing grammatical gender in Dutch: Evidence from eye movements.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2017.01.007
Abstract: Previous research has demonstrated that grammatical gender in Dutch is typically acquired late. Most of this work used production data only, and consequently children's knowledge of Dutch gender may have been underestimated. In this study,… read more here.
Keywords: gender marking; grammatical gender; production; gender ... See more keywords
Argentine Danish Grammatical Gender: Stability with Strongly Patterned Variation
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DOI: 10.1017/s1470542720000069
Abstract: This paper investigates the expression of grammatical gender in Heritage Argentine Danish. We examine a subset of the Corpus of South American Danish of approximately 20,500 tokens of gender marking produced by 90 speakers. The… read more here.
Keywords: gender; argentine danish; variation; stability ... See more keywords
Alternative Solutions to a Language Design Problem: The Role of Adjectives and Gender Marking in Efficient Communication
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DOI: 10.1111/tops.12316
Abstract: A central goal of typological research is to characterize linguistic features in terms of both their functional role and their fit to social and cognitive systems. One long-standing puzzle concerns why certain languages employ grammatical… read more here.
Keywords: gender marking; design problem; solutions language; alternative solutions ... See more keywords