Moving Beyond the Native-Speaker Bias in the Analysis of Variable Gender Marking

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dc.contributor.authorGudmestad, Aarnesen
dc.contributor.authorEdmonds, Amandaen
dc.contributor.authorMetzger, Thomasen
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-05T14:02:09Zen
dc.date.available2022-04-05T14:02:09Zen
dc.date.issued2021-08-09en
dc.description.abstractIn the current study, we respond to calls for reform in second language acquisition that center on the field's preoccupation with native-speaker and prescriptive targets as a benchmark for additional-language learning. In order to address these concerns, we examine the use and development of grammatical gender marking in additional-language Spanish in a prescriptive-independent manner. Specifically, we depart from previous analyses that have centered on accuracy and targetlikeness and we shift the object of analysis to the linguistic forms (i.e., feminine and masculine modifiers) that additional-language participants use. We adopt a variationist approach to explain how participants vary their use of modifier gender and how this use changes longitudinally. We argue that such an approach to studying additional languages allows us to offer new insights about the acquisition of grammatical gender marking in additional-language Spanish. We end by critically reflecting on some of the challenges that we encountered in trying to integrate this paradigm shift into the examination of a well-studied grammatical structure.en
dc.description.notesThe publication of this paper was funded by Virginia Tech's Open Access Subvention Fund.en
dc.description.sponsorshipVirginia Tech's Open Access Subvention Funden
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.723496en
dc.identifier.eissn2297-900Xen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/109542en
dc.identifier.volume6en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectnative speaker biasen
dc.subjectvariationist approachesen
dc.subjectgrammatical genderen
dc.subjectSpanishen
dc.subjectvariationen
dc.titleMoving Beyond the Native-Speaker Bias in the Analysis of Variable Gender Markingen
dc.title.serialFrontiers in Communicationen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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