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Título
Who does it better? The acquisition of Spanish grammatical gender by L1 English and L1 Russian adults
Año del Documento
2024
Editorial
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Descripción
Producción Científica
Documento Fuente
Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada, 2024, vol. 37, n. 1, p. 143- 171
Résumé
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.
Materias (normalizadas)
Second language acquisition
Gramática comparada y general
Materias Unesco
57 Lingüística
Palabras Clave
Full Transfer/Full Access hypothesis
L2 acquisition
Spanish grammatical gender
Hipótesis de transferencia total/acceso total
Adquisición de L2
Género gramatical español
ISSN
0213-2028
Revisión por pares
SI
Patrocinador
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación y Ministerio de Universidades - FEDER (grant number: PGC2018-097693-B-I00)
Junta de Castilla y León y el Fondo Social Europeo (grant number: EDU/556/2019)
Junta de Galicia (grant number: ED481A-2017/279)
Ministerio de Universidades (grant number: RSU.UDC.MS09)
Junta de Castilla y León y el Fondo Social Europeo (grant number: EDU/556/2019)
Junta de Galicia (grant number: ED481A-2017/279)
Ministerio de Universidades (grant number: RSU.UDC.MS09)
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Propietario de los Derechos
© 2024 John Benjamins Publishing Company
Idioma
eng
Tipo de versión
info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Derechos
openAccess
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