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dc.contributor.authorBjörnsdottir, Sigridur Mjoll
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-24T14:05:25Z
dc.date.available2022-02-24T14:05:25Z
dc.date.issued2021-02-04
dc.description.abstractChildren's differing learning trajectories cross-linguistically have been at the forefront of gender acquisition research, often with conflicting results and conclusions. As a result, the source of children's different learning behaviors in gender acquisition has been unclear. I argue that children's gender acquisition is driven by the search for productive patterns. First, I provide corpus studies where the predictions of a learning model (Yang, 2016) are formulated. Second, I report the results of an elicited production task on Icelandic-speaking children (N = 26, ages 2;6-6;3 years) and adults (N = 18) that puts these predictions to test. The results suggest that Icelandic-speaking children and adults draw a categorical distinction between productive and unproductive suffixes in Icelandic gender assignment. I discuss the implications of these findings for morphological learning beyond gender acquisition.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBjörnsdottir SM. Productivity and the acquisition of gender. Journal of Child Language. 2021;48(6):1209-1234en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1998001
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0305000920000732
dc.identifier.issn0305-0009
dc.identifier.issn1469-7602
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/24142
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherCambrigde University Pressen_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of Child Language
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleProductivity and the acquisition of genderen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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