The French Speaker's Skill with Grammatical Gender

1977/12/31 by G. Richard Tucker, G. R. Tucker, William E. Lambert +2 · 1 voice · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Gender Studies in Language #Historical Linguistics and Language Studies

paper · doi:10.1515/9783110805413

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• Development of Gender Classifications: Modeling the Historical Change from Latin to French
• Gender assignment and gender agreement: Evidence from pronominal gender languages

Discussions

• French has a lot of different noun endings (in comparison to Spanish, for ex) which makes the patterns particularly opaque for L2 learners But there are patterns! Tucker et al. 1997 (https://doi.org/ [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]