Loss of Gender Agreement in L1 Attrition: Preliminary Results.

Anderson, Raquel T.

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Publication Date: 1999

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Loss of Gender Agreement in L1 Attrition: Preliminary Results.

Anderson, Raquel T.

Bilingual Research Journal, v23 n4 p389-408 Fall 1999

First-language attrition and loss of noun-phrase gender agreement were studied for 22 months with two Puerto Rican sisters, beginning at ages 6.6 and 4.6 years. Analysis of taped mother-child conversations suggests that Spanish gender agreement morphology is vulnerable to language loss. Subjects' gender errors were related to their language contact situation. (Contains 53 references.) (Author/SV)

Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Error Patterns, Language Skill Attrition, Linguistic Input, Longitudinal Studies, Spanish, Spanish Speaking, Young Children

Online at http://brj.asu.edu/v234/indexg.html.

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Language: English

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