The Acquisition of Gender: A Study of English and German

according acquisition of gender adjective age group analysis animacy animals referred animate nouns associated attributes basis behaviour child children's literature choice clear cognitive common gender context definite article discussed English and German English children errors example experimental female referents feminine gender nouns frequently function gender assignment gender forms gender paradigms gender system gender-marked forms gender-marked pronouns German children German speakers Gisela grammatical gender große hypernym inanimacy inanimate nouns indefinite influence language acquisition learned lexical lexicon linguistic description loan words male and female male sex markedness marking masc masculine and feminine masculine gender monosyllabic natural gender rule neuter gender nonsense words noun classification systems number of exceptions Pferd phonetic rules plural possible principles produced relative pronoun rules of gender Scupin selection semantic rules sentence sex assignment sex-marked pronoun Slobin subjects suffix Table task three genders tion toys University of Tübingen vocabulary Zubin and Köpcke