The acquisition of Modern Greek by L1 Turkish children: Evidence from nominal agreement and morphology.
Abstract
The aim of this study is twofold: (a) to examine whether L2 children who are native speakers of an L1 without grammatical gender and are exposed to the L2 after age 5 can acquire the feature of gender in the L2 and (b) to investigate the role that different linguistic variables (semantic, morpho-phonological, syntactic and lexical) play in gender assignment and gender agreement by L1 and L2 speakers of Greek. 132 native speakers of Turkish, aged 12-16, who were systematically exposed to Greek when they entered primary school (NNS) and 41 native speakers of Greek at the same age (NS) participated in this study. The NNS were divided in four proficiency levels according to a written proficiency test. They also differed in terms of the intensity of input they had received, which was measured by means of their type of schooling (standard Greek vs. minority school). Two oral elicitation tasks were used: a gender assignment task, in which participants had to choose the appropriate definite ar ...
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