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Publication Date: 1998
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Acquisition of Grammatical Gender in Italian as a Foreign Language.
Oliphant, Katrina
Canadian Modern Language Review, v54 n2 p239-62 Jan 1998
This study investigated sensitivity to morphological, semantic, and syntactic cues to grammatical gender among 64 students of college-level Italian. Results showed sensitivity to cues in word-final phonemes, but low awareness of gender associations of derivational suffixes. Students had more difficulty dealing with multiple cues, particularly when conflicting, but generally could use syntactic cues to override conflicting cues. (Author/MSE)
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