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Université de Fribourg

Metalinguistic knowledge about the native language and language transfer in gender assignment

Vanhove, Jan

In: Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2019, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 397-419

Whereas Standard Dutch only distinguishes between two adnominal grammatical genders, substandard varieties of Belgian Dutch distinguish between three such genders. German, too, distinguishes between three genders. Nevertheless, when assigning gender to German nouns with Dutch cognates, speakers of Belgian Dutch are strongly influenced by Standard Dutch gender but to a much lesser degree (if at...

Université de Fribourg

Middle-income groups in Kenya : Conflicting realities between upward mobility and uncertainty

Neubert, Dieter

In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2019, vol. 1, no. 4, p. Article: 1.4

For more than a decade scholars mostly from economy and development studies have described the rise of a newly emerging ‘middle class’ in the Global South including Africa. This has led to a ‘middle class narrative’ with the ‘middle class’ as the backbone of economic and democratic development. Especially with regard to the stability of the position of the people in the ‘middle’,...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Word accent and mapping rules in Yurakaré

van Gijn, Rik

In: Morphology, 2014, vol. 24, no. 3, p. 223-244