The second language acquisition of grammatical gender and number in Italian

Ayoun, Dalila; Maranzana, Stefano

doi:10.1075/sibil.63.05ayo

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“…They were more confident on the GJT (0.6%-6.3% of 'don't know' responses) than on the PGJT (11.7%-17.3% for the non-preferred sentence grammaticality and up to 27.3% for affective constructions). L1 speakers' confidence is generally high with ceiling performance on various tasks as with Italian L1 speakers whose accuracy on a written grammatical gender assignment task ranged from 90.0% to 99.7% along with negligible 'don't know' percentages (0%-0.1%) (Ayoun and Maranzana, 2022). L1 speakers are also typically able to correctly accept grammatical stimuli while correctly rejecting ungrammatical stimuli.…”

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Indeterminacy in L1 French grammars: the case of gender and number agreement

Ayoun¹

2022

French Language Studies

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Although L1 French speakers (FS) acquire the formal features of gender and number early, agreement appears to take longer, leading to persistent difficulties even for cases of straightforward agreement within a nominal or verbal phrase. This begs the questions of how adult FSs (n = 168) may fare with idiosyncratic cases of agreement such as nominal affective constructions and past participles as measured by a written grammaticality judgment /correction task and preference/grammaticality judgment task. The findings showing that participants performed better at correctly accepting than rejecting stimuli, are consistent with an increasing number of empirical studies revealing individual differences among adult L1 speakers. The findings are discussed from a generative perspective and the usage-based perspective of the Basic Language Cognition-High Language Cognition theory of L1 proficiency (Hulstijn, 2015).

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Indeterminacy in L1 French grammars: the case of gender and number agreement

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2022

French Language Studies

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“…It follows that, even though Russian and Greek employ agreement computations in the case of the Adj-N dependency, this does not guarantee its morphological realization in the way it is expressed in Greek. A plausible explanation comes from the fact that the features that manifest agreement are not always detectable in Greek, since the features of gender, number and case are extensively conflated, thus not meeting the requirement of a formal contrast that would render the features salient 15 (Lardiere 2009; see also Ayoun and Maranzana 2022). At the same time, the non-transparent nature of the morphological marking of gender in Russian could further reduce the attention of Russian learners on the respective markers that establish agreement in Greek (see Hopp and Lemmerth 2018 for similar effects on predictive reading).…”

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Exploring Grammatical Gender Agreement in Russian Learners of Greek: An Eye-Tracking Study

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This study investigates the acquisition of grammatical gender in Russian learners of Greek. Agreement in Determiner-Noun (Det-N) and Adjective-Noun (Adj-N) dependencies is explored through eye-tracking registration in a reading-based design. Twenty-four intermediate learners read short texts embedded with agreement violations, and then responded to a comprehension task. The study implemented a two-level triangulation by drawing its stimuli from the Greek Learner Corpus II (GLCII) and contrasting, at a first level, the findings with comparable offline data that were previously obtained from the same corpus. The second level entailed a contrast between the online evidence and the offline data that were collected through a post-reading questionnaire right after the online eye-tracking session. This questionnaire explored whether longer fixations on agreement violations are associated with explicit awareness of the study’s focus. To anticipate the outcome of the study, the gender agreement data suggests that the abstract gender feature is present in the developing grammar of Russian learners of Greek. Moreover, the participants seem to effectively deal with the syntactic computations underlying nominal agreement, though efficacy varies across the structures that have been examined. Apart from this, certain suggestions are made considering the research paradigm followed.

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The Oxford Handbook of the French Language

2024

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This volume provides the first comprehensive reference work in English on the French language in all its facets. It offers a wide-ranging approach to the rich, varied, and exciting research across multiple subfields, with seven broad thematic sections covering the structures of French; the history of French; axes of variation; French around the world; French in contact with other languages; second language acquisition; and French in literature, culture, arts, and the media. Each chapter presents the state of the art and directs readers to canonical studies and essential works, while also exploring cutting-edge research and outlining future directions. The Oxford Handbook of the French Language serves both as a reference work for people who are curious to know more about the French language and as a starting point for those carrying out new research on the language and its many varieties. It will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students as well as established scholars, whether they are specialists in French linguistics or researchers in a related field looking to learn more about the language. The diversity of frameworks, approaches, and scholars in the volume demonstrates above all the variety, vitality, and vibrancy of work on the French language today

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The second language acquisition of grammatical gender and number in Italian

Cited by 40 publications

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Indeterminacy in L1 French grammars: the case of gender and number agreement

Indeterminacy in L1 French grammars: the case of gender and number agreement

Exploring Grammatical Gender Agreement in Russian Learners of Greek: An Eye-Tracking Study

The Oxford Handbook of the French Language

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