Gender Agreement in Adult Second Language Learners and Spanish Heritage Speakers: The Effects of Age and Context of Acquisition

By S. Montrul, Rebecca Foote, Sílvia Perpiñán. 2008

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Gender and number agreement in the oral production of Arabic Heritage speakers* (2012, result): “The fact that heritage speakers over-generalize the masculine singular category is consistent with data from other heritage populations suggesting that masculine and singular are less marked in the acquisition of inflectional morphology (Albirini et al., 2011; Cornips & Hulk, 2006; Laleko, 2010; Mon”
Heritage Languages and Their Speakers (2018, unknown): “Heritage language speakers consistently perform better on aural perception tasks than on written ones — the exact opposite of the pattern found with second language learners (Montrul et al. 2008).”
MORPHOLOGICAL ERRORS IN SPANISH SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS AND HERITAGE SPEAKERS (2011, background): “Håkansson ( 1995 ), Polinsky ( 2008 ), and Montrul, Foote, and Perpiñán ( 2008 ) have independently shown that heritage speakers display very high error rates with gender marking (ranging from 5% to 50%).”
WHEN GENDER AND LOOKING GO HAND IN HAND (2013, methodology): “The task included 32 items targeting gender agreement (taken from Appendix A in Montrul et al., 2008 ) and 16 fi ller items.”
Learning (not) to predict: Grammatical gender processing in second language acquisition (2016, background): “…only reach levels from 75% to 90% accuracy in gender assignment in elicited production (Alarcón, 2011; Bruhn de Garavito and White, 2003; Franceschina, 2005; Grüter et al., 2012; Montrul et al., 2008), even though Spanish affords transparent phonological cues for gender assignment in noun endings.”
Spanish gender agreement under complete and incomplete acquisition: Early and late bilinguals' linguistic behavior within the noun phrase* (2011, methodology): “…including L1 (e.g., Hernández-Pina, 1984; López-Ornat, 1997), L2 (e.g., Fernández-García, 1999; Franceschina, 2001), and heritage learners (Montrul et al., 2008), both groups are expected to be more accurate on gender agreement with articles than with adjectives, with overt than with…”
Early language experience facilitates the processing of gender agreement in Spanish heritage speakers* (2013, methodology): “Considering the modality, type, and timing of required response, and the explicitness of each task (Bialystok & Ryan, 1985; Ellis, 2005), the untimed written tasks used by Montrul et al. (2008) may have tapped the L2 learners’ explicit, and even metalinguistic, knowledge of gender.”
How similar are adult second language learners and Spanish heritage speakers? Spanish clitics and word order (2009, background): “Although the incidence of nativelike attainment appears to be much higher in heritage speakers than in L2 learners (Montrul et al., 2008), other studies show that heritage language learners are also prone to fossilization in specific areas of their grammars, many of which, like clitics, are…”
On the Relationships Between the Grammatical Genders of Inanimate Nouns and Their Co-Occurring Adjectives and Verbs (2020, background): “” Indeed, adult language learners often have particular difficulty mastering the grammatical genders of inanimate nouns (Franceschina 2005, Ch.4, DeKeyser 2005; Montrul et al. 2008), which suggests that their meanings are not straightforward.”
Grammatical gender in adult L2 acquisition: Relations between lexical and syntactic variability (2013, background): “For instance, advanced L1 English L2ers of Spanish only reach levels from 75% to 90% accuracy in gender assignment in elicited production (Alarcón, 2011; Bruhn de Garavito and White, 2003; Franceschina, 2005; Grüter et al., 2012; Montrul et al., 2008).”