This study examines Spanish gender assignment among mixed bilingual children with 121 English Language Learners and 17 Spanish Language Leaners from North and South Florida through the results of a receptive gender marking task. Two groups of younger (ages 4 to 6) and older (7 to 10) students participated and were tested on their accuracy of gender markers (el and la) on picture naming task of overtly and non-overtly marked feminine and masculine nouns. All participants demonstrated greater accuracy with overtly marked versus non-overtly marked nouns and with feminine versus masculine marked nouns. Greater overall gender assignment accuracy and the accuracy of marked markers was seen with older bilinguals compared to younger bilinguals. Comparisons regarding overall accuracy of gender assignment were made according to location. The results showed greater accuracy for overall gender assignment and marked nouns (overtly, non-overtly, masculine and feminine) for the participants from the South Florida compared to North Florida. For South Florida, years studying Spanish was significantly related to overall gender assignment accuracy. Equivalently, for North Florida, the number of years of exposure to Spanish was significantly related to overall gender assignment accuracy. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of Communication Science and Disorders in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. / Spring Semester 2015. / March 27, 2015. / bilingual, gender assignment, language, non-overtly, overtly, Spanish / Includes bibliographical references. / Carla Wood, Professor Directing Thesis; RaMonda Horton, Committee Member; Gretchen Sunderman, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_273624 |
| Contributors | Vamos, Jennifer (authoraut), Wood, Carla (professor directing thesis), Horton-Ikard, Ramonda (committee member), Sunderman, Gretchen L. (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Communication and Information (degree granting college), School of Communication Science and Disorders (degree granting department) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource (81 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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