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Subject Gateway Slavistics This is title 3 of 1018. Title Semantics and morphology : The acquisition of grammatical gender in Russian URL  http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2247 Author Rodina, Yulia Subject headings Russisch; Spracherwerb; Kindersprache; Genus; Substantiv; Dissertation Classification Russisch (491.7) 401.93 Document type Einzelne Hochschulschriften Individual Theses and Dissertations Summary Die Dissertation untersucht den Erwerb des Genus im russischen monolingualen Erstspracherwerb und richtet seinen Fokus dabei auf Substantive, deren semantischer Genus (biologisches Geschlecht) vom formalen (morphologische Endung) abweicht. Als Datenbasis dient die Sprachproduktion (elizitierte Äußerungen) von 25 Kindern im Alter von 2;6 bis 4;0 und 12 Kindern im Alter von 5;1 bis 6;5. Language Englisch (eng) Basisklassifikation Russische Sprache (18.52) Spracherwerb (17.31) Description The dissertation investigates how Russian children acquire the category of grammatical gender in their mother tongue. The focus of the study is on several specific classes of nouns whose gender is usually derived from their semantic rather than their morphological properties, e.g. papa ‘daddy’. Previously, such nouns have been found to be problematic for children acquiring various languages. This dissertation presents the results of acquisition experiments with 37 Russian-speaking children and provides novel evidence suggesting that between the ages of 2½ and 6 the children are rather sensitive to the noun’s form. Special attention in the dissertation is paid to the asymmetries in children’s agreement production with various classes of nouns. The detailed analysis of the experimental results reveals that children distinguish classes of nouns and that primary linguistic data play an important role in this process. [Autor-Abstract]