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 …

It has been widely argued that morphological competence, particularly functional
morphology, represents the bottleneck of second language acquisition (Jensen et al. 2017; …

This study addresses language myths that users evoke when reacting to institutional
language changes proposed by the Spanish Royal Academy (Real Academia Española …

The persistent problems in learners' performance with local gender agreement have puzzled
SLA researchers for some time. This paper presents new experimental data that …

Grammatical gender is an inherent lexical property of nouns that categorizes them into two
or more classes. Spanish and Portuguese have a binary gender system in which all nouns …

This paper aims to demonstrate the reliability of morphosyntactic versus
morphophonological features in the acquisition of L2 gender of inanimate nouns across …

In this paper, we propose the implementation of a full-fledged feature-based lexicalist
syntactic theory as a way to represent the possible configurations of features in the learner's …

Gender has been regarded as the “most puzzling of the grammatical categories”(Corbett
1991: 1). Unsurprisingly then, it has become a topic of interest and investigation that has …

This dissertation is about the category of gender in bilingual grammars. The specific focus is
on the interplay between the linguistic properties that correlate with gender assignment in …

Extended non-target optionality in L2 Grammatical Gender: An overabundance of
constraints Page 1 Extended non-target optionality in L2 Grammatical Gender: An …