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Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism: In honor of Aafke Hulk
Edited by Elma Blom, Leonie Cornips and Jeannette Schaeffer
[Studies in Bilingualism 52] 2017
► pp. 153–180

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

| University of Reading
| University of Edinburgh
| University of Amsterdam
| University of Amsterdam
| Utrecht University
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
      • Participants
      • Materials
    • Results
    • Discussion
    • Conclusions
  • References
Published online: 19 December 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.52.08mar
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