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dc.contributor.authorMitrofanova, Natalia
dc.contributor.authorUrek, Olga
dc.contributor.authorRodina, Yulia
dc.contributor.authorWestergaard, Marit
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-07T12:59:57Z
dc.date.available2021-12-07T12:59:57Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-27
dc.description.abstractPrevious research on the acquisition of grammatical gender has shown that this property is acquired early in transparent gender systems such as Russian. However, it is not clear to what extent children are sensitive to the assignment cues and to what extent they simply memorize correspondences between frequent lexical items. Furthermore, we do not know if bilingual children are different from monolingual children in this respect. This article reports on a study investigating bilingual children’s sensitivity to gender assignment cues in Russian. A group of 64 bilingual German–Russian children living in Germany participated in the study, as well as 107 monolingual controls in Russia. The elicitation experiments used both real and nonce words, as well as noun phrases with mismatched cues (where the morphophonological shape of the noun cued one gender and the agreement on the modifying adjective another). The results show that both bilinguals and monolinguals are highly sensitive to cues, both to the frequent transparent cues and to more fine-grained gender regularities in situations where there is ambiguity. There is also an age effect, showing that younger children pay more attention to the cue on the noun itself, thus displaying a preference for regular patterns, while older children are more sensitive to gender agreement on other targets.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMitrofanova, Urek, Rodina, Westergaard. Sensitivity to microvariation in bilingual acquisition: Morphophonological gender cues in Russian heritage language. Applied Psycholinguistics. 2021:1-39en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1934354
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0142716421000382
dc.identifier.issn0142-7164
dc.identifier.issn1469-1817
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/23308
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherCambrigde University Pressen_US
dc.relation.journalApplied Psycholinguistics
dc.relation.projectIDUiT Norges arktiske universitet: 2062165en_US
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 250857en_US
dc.relation.projectIDSenter for grunnforskning: CAS 2019/2020 MultiGenderen_US
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: 000en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000en_US
dc.titleSensitivity to microvariation in bilingual acquisition: Morphophonological gender cues in Russian heritage languageen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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