The impact of transparency and morpho-phonological cues in the acquisition of grammatical gender in sequential bilingual children and children with Specific Language Impairment
A cross-linguistic study
Article outline
- Introduction
- Gender in Greek and Dutch
- Acquisition of gender in Greek and Dutch L2 children and in children with SLI
- The present study
- Methodology
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusions
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