Contrastive Analysis and French Gender, Remarks on a Study by Elaine Tarone, Uli Frauenfelder and Larry Selinker. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 8 [electronic resource] / Irene Spilka.

Before any conclusions can be drawn about the relative complexity of grammatical items, the items should be thoroughly analyzed. For example, learning to use French gender involves much more than learning to recognize formal characteristics which account for gender in nouns; it also requires that se...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Spilka, Irene
Corporate Author:	Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Bilingual Education Project
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1976.
Subjects:	Bilingualism. Contrastive Linguistics. Difficulty Level. Error Patterns. French. Grammar. Interference (Language) Language Instruction. Linguistic Difficulty (Inherent) Morphology (Languages) Nouns. Plurals. Second Language Learning. Semantics. Spelling.