TY - JOUR AU - Montanari, Elke PY - 2014/03/20 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Grammatical gender in the discourse of multilingual children's acquisition of German JF - Linguistik Online JA - LO VL - 64 IS - 2 SE - Bi- und multilingual people: Language attitudes and language use / Bi- und multilinguale Menschen: Spracheinstellungen und Sprachverwendung DO - 10.13092/lo.64.1377 UR - https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/1377 SP - AB - The acquisition of grammatical gender by multilingual pre-school children (aged six) was investigated by observing their narration and discourse. It emerged that only three of the 17 children actually used gender to classify nouns. Grammatical agreement is acknowledged as a key feature of gender acquisition, and it reflects developmental steps. Children growing up with mostly bilingual German input at a low proficiency level had the greatest difficulties in acquiring gender and agreement in the group investigated. ER -