Table of contents
About the contributorsVII
Chapter 1.Introduction: Gender, geslag, Geschlecht, γένος, ਲਿੰਗ, 性別1
Part I.Review chapters
Chapter 2.Gender assignment in mixed noun phrases: State of the art13
Chapter 3.Empirical evidence for gender biases in language49
Chapter 4.The acquisition of grammatical gender in child and adult heritage speakers of Spanish71
Part II.Child, adult and heritage speakers
Chapter 5.The second language acquisition of grammatical gender and number in Italian97
Chapter 6.Grammatical gender and article use in novice learners of German as a third language127
Chapter 7.The non-default gender category in additional-language French157
Chapter 8.Investigating grammatical gender agreement in Spanish: A methodological exploration of eye-tracking183
Chapter 9.Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual grammars: Evidence from gender assignment in unilingual Dutch and mixed speech209
Chapter 10.Prediction on the basis of gender and number in Mandarin-Italian bilingual children243
Language index273
Name index275
Subject index281
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