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T1 Who does it better? The acquisition of Spanish grammatical gender by L1 English and L1 Russian adults
A1 Gómez Carrero, Tamara
A1 Ogneva, Anastasiia
K1 Second language acquisition
K1 Gramática comparada y general
K1 Full Transfer/Full Access hypothesis
K1 L2 acquisition
K1 Spanish grammatical gender
K1 Hipótesis de transferencia total/acceso total
K1 Adquisición de L2
K1 Género gramatical español
K1 57 Lingüística
AB This study addresses the acquisition of second language (L2) Spanish grammatical gender by native speakers of two typologically different languages: English (n = 39) and Russian (n = 37). We aim to explore if the presence or absence of gender features in the first language (L1) influences the acquisition of Spanish grammatical gender. Participants completed an acceptability judgment task consisting of 40 sentences with grammatical and ungrammatical Spanish Determiner Phrases (DPs). They included masculine and feminine Ns (Nouns) with transparent or opaque endings. Our findings show that (1) both groups are sensitive to gender non-matching structures, although L1 Russian speakers gave the lowest scores to ungrammatical structures in Spanish; (2) higher rating scores to masculine matching DPs point to the use of masculine as default by both L2 groups; (3) Ns with transparent endings act as cues for L2 Spanish learners, since both groups of participants rated the non-matching DPs with transparent Ns more accurately than those with opaque Ns. Therefore, our findings suggest that gender in L2 Spanish can be acquired regardless of the presence or the absence of these grammatical property in the L1, although its presence in the L1 seems to accelerate this process.
PB John Benjamins Publishing Company
SN 0213-2028
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/67418
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/67418
LA eng
NO Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada, 2024, vol. 37, n. 1, p. 143- 171
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 22-dic-2024