Events
Weak Vocabulary = Lots of Gestures? Evidence from Bilingual Children
Speaker: Elena Nicoladis
Friday, March 19, 2021 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Online, via Zoom
Children's Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation
Speaker: Karen Miller
Friday, March 05, 2021 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Online, via Zoom
The Missing Link: Perceived Accents in German / Russian School Children
Speaker: Tanja Kupisch
Friday, February 26, 2021 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Online, via Zoom
Gender agreement and gender assignment in heritage grammars
Speaker: Maria Polinsky, University of Maryland
Friday, November 20, 2020 2:00 pm
Online, via Zoom
This talk presents and analyzes differences in gender agreement between heritage languages and the baseline. Within the realm of morphology, gender agreement is among the often-cited areas of divergence between heritage and baseline speakers. In contrast, agreement in person is rarely problematic in heritage languages. After presenting empirical data illustrating this divergence, I will address the following questions: (1) what can explain the asymmetry between the features [person] and [gender] in heritage grammar agreement? (2) what is the status of the feature [number] in heritage grammars? In the process of addressing these questions, I will additionally consider whether the heritage data shed new light on existing theories of morphological gender and of the lexicon more broadly.
This talk presents and analyzes differences in gender agreement between heritage languages and the baseline. Within the realm of morphology, gender agreement is among the often-cited areas of divergence between heritage and baseline speakers. In contrast, agreement in person is rarely problematic in heritage languages. After presenting empirical data illustrating this divergence, I will address the following questions: (1) what can explain the asymmetry between the features [person] and [gender] in heritage grammar agreement? (2) what is the status of the feature [number] in heritage grammars? In the process of addressing these questions, I will additionally consider whether the heritage data shed new light on existing theories of morphological gender and of the lexicon more broadly.