In:Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism: In honor of Aafke Hulk
Edited by Elma Blom, Leonie Cornips and Jeannette Schaeffer
[Studies in Bilingualism 52] 2017
► pp. 153–180
The impact of transparency and morpho-phonological cues in the acquisition of grammatical gender in sequential bilingual children and children with Specific Language Impairment
A cross-linguistic study
Published online: 19 December 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.52.08mar
https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.52.08mar
Article outline
- Introduction
- Gender in Greek and Dutch
- Acquisition of gender in Greek and Dutch L2 children and in children with SLI
- The present study
- Methodology
- Participants
- Materials
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Methodology
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