This study investigates the acquisition of gender agreement marking in Polish noun phrases. It thus sheds light on the general acquisition of noun gender in Polish which, in most cases, can be predicted by the auslaut of the noun. Whether a child knows the gender of a given noun is indicated by his/her ability to produce gender marked attributive adjectives. To test this ability we elicited attributive adjectives in a group of 34 Polish-German children from age 2;11 to 6;5 with Polish as L1. We tested contexts with typically and atypically marked nouns, as well as with nonce words. With respect to correct markings, error rates and error types, we checked whether the children relied on the morphophonological clues of a given noun and/or whether they use a default strategy. Furthermore, we investigated the development of gender agreement marking. Our results show that (1) even at age six the development of gender agreement/marking is not yet completed, (2) the children use morphophonological as well as semantic clues to identify the gender of a given noun, and (3) the children over-apply feminine and masculine markings.
2024. Heritage Language Forms. In The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics, ► pp. 657 ff.
De Houwer, Annick
2023. Polish-German preschoolers develop and use heritage Polish differently depending on whether they heard German from birth or not. Frontiers in Psychology 14
Fuchs, Zuzanna
2022. Eyetracking evidence for heritage speakers’ access to abstract syntactic agreement features in real-time processing. Frontiers in Psychology 13
Fuchs, Zuzanna
2024. Processing of grammatical gender agreement morphemes in Polish: evidence from the Visual World Paradigm. Morphology 34:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Brehmer, Bernhard
2021. Slavic Heritage Languages around the Globe. In The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics, ► pp. 13 ff.
Kupisch, Tanja
2021. Heritage Languages in Europe. In The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics, ► pp. 45 ff.
2020. Internal and External Factors in Heritage Language Acquisition: Evidence From Heritage Russian in Israel, Germany, Norway, Latvia and the United Kingdom. Frontiers in Education 5
Ruberg, Tobias
2016. Der Genuserwerb ein- und mehrsprachiger Reflexion eines sprachpädagogischen Promotionsprojekts. In Wege durch den Forschungsdschungel, ► pp. 233 ff.
Blaszczyk, Izabela Maria
2015. Język polski w Niemczech. Wpływ języka niemieckiego na polszczyznę Polonii niemieckiej. Adeptus :5 ► pp. 64 ff.
Ravid, Dorit & Rachel Schiff
2015. It’s all about gender: Hebrew speakers’ judgment of adjective plural agreement. Morphology 25:3 ► pp. 327 ff.
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2021. Heritage Languages around the World. In The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics, ► pp. 11 ff.
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