Bilinguals’ Sensitivity to Grammatical Gender Cues in Russian: The Role of Cumulative Input, Proficiency, and Dominance

Bilinguals’ Sensitivity to Grammatical Gender Cues in Russian: The Role of Cumulative Input, Proficiency, and Dominance

This paper reports on an experimental study investigating the acquisition of grammatical gender in Russian by heritage speakers living in Norway. The participants are 54 Norwegian-Russian bilingual children (4;0–10;2) as well as 107 Russian monolingual controls (3;0–7;0). Previous research has shown...

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Main Authors: Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina, Olga Urek, Marit Westergaard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
nonce words
default gender
heritage speaker
Norwegian-Russian bilinguals
transparent/opaque gender
proficiency
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01894/full

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