More on Rules for Rules
Gender in Spanish and the Monitor User
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8937865 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Gay Doman (University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-19 |
| Publication date | 1982-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Foreign Language Annals (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-718X • E-ISSN: 1944-9720 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1944-9720.1982.tb00223.x |
| OpenAlex | W4238915073 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In attempting to perfect rules for use in pedagogical grammars, there is a tendency to rely too heavily on formal criteria, without taking into account actual data about language use. Two sets of rules for determining noun gender and making gender agreements in Spanish are examined critically on the basis of both formal criteria, including frequency in discourse of the items described by the rules, and the notions about the role of rules in second language use formalized in the Monitor Model. Some of the proposed rules prove to be either descriptively invalid or, for other reasons, likely to be of little practical utility to the language user. It is suggested that formal criteria, psychological criteria, and data about actual language use by second language learners should be considered in evaluating the formal rules of a pedagogical grammar
Emergent grammar · Grammar · Grammar systems theory · Linguistics · Natural language · Natural language processing · Noun · Object language · Rule-based machine translation · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Gender Studies in Language · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |