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Acquisition of Grammatical Gender in Italian as a Foreign Language.
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Oliphant, Katrina – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
This study investigated sensitivity to morphological, semantic, and syntactic cues to grammatical gender among 64 students of college-level Italian. Results showed sensitivity to cues in word-final phonemes, but low awareness of gender associations of derivational suffixes. Students had more difficulty dealing with multiple cues, particularly when…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Grammar, Higher Education, Italian