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dc.contributor.authorKupisch, Tanja
dc.contributor.authorMitrofanova, Natalia
dc.contributor.authorWestergaard, Marit
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-04T14:05:21Z
dc.date.available2021-08-04T14:05:21Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-25
dc.description.abstractWe investigate German–Russian bilingual children's sensitivity to formal and semantic cues when assigning gender to nouns in German. Across languages, young children have been shown to primarily rely on phonological cues, whereas sensitivity to semantic and syntactic cues increases with age. With its semi-transparent gender assignment system, where both formal and semantic cues are psycho linguistically relevant, German has weak phonological cues compared to other languages, and children have been argued to acquire semantic and phonological rules in tandem. German–Russian bilingual children face the challenge of acquiring two different gender assignment systems simultaneously. We tested 45 bilingual children (ages 4–10 years) and monolingual controls. Results show that the children are clearly sensitive to phonological cues, while semantic cues play a minor role. However, monolingual and bilingual children have different defaulting strategies, with monolinguals defaulting to neuter and bilinguals to feminine gender.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKupisch T, Mitrofanova N, Westergaard M. Phonological vs. natural gender cues in the acquisition of German by simultaneous and sequential bilinguals (German–Russian). Journal of Child Language. 2021en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1911860
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0305000921000039
dc.identifier.issn0305-0009
dc.identifier.issn1469-7602
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/21930
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of Child Language
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/FRIHUMSAM/250857/Norway/Micro-variation in Multilingual Situations/MiMS/en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Applied linguistics: 012en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Anvendt språkvitenskap: 012en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::German language: 021en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Tysk språk: 021en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Russian language: 028en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Russisk språk: 028en_US
dc.titlePhonological vs. natural gender cues in the acquisition of German by simultaneous and sequential bilinguals (German–Russian)en_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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