This paper examines the acquisition of grammatical gender of indefinite and definite DPs in Danish. It investigates which grammatical contexts further acquisition and which slow it down, and whether distinguishing between monolinguals and bilinguals makes a difference. Danish has a two-way gender distinction (common and neuter), fusing gender with definiteness in the DP. In order to answer our research questions, we tested monolingual and bilingual Danish-speaking children (n=72) from different age groups using the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, a Picture Description Task, and a Story Task. A generalized linear mixed effects regression analysis of the results showed that i) the children produced the Standard Danish determiner significantly more often with common than with neuter nouns; ii) the children produced significantly more Standard Danish gender marking in simple DPs than in complex DPs; iii) the children produced significantly more expressions with definite determiners realized as suffixes than with indefinite determiners expressed as prenominal articles in accordance with conventional norms; and iv) bilingual children produced significantly less Standard Danish gender marking than their monolingual peers, but ceiling effects in the monolingual group made it impossible to examine interactions between group and grammatical context.*

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丹麦单语和双语儿童限定词语法性别的习得：一项实验研究

本文研究了丹麦语中不确定和确定 DP 的语法性别的习得。它调查了哪些语法语境会进一步习得，哪些会减慢习得速度，以及区分单语和双语是否会产生影响。丹麦语有两种性别区分（普通和中性），在 DP 中将性别与确定性融合在一起。为了回答我们的研究问题，我们测试了单语和双语丹麦语儿童（n=72) 来自不同年龄组的皮博迪图片词汇测试、图片描述任务和故事任务。对结果的广义线性混合效应回归分析表明：i) 儿童使用普通名词比使用中性名词更频繁地使用标准丹麦语限定词；ii) 孩子们在简单的 DP 中比在复杂的 DP 中产生的标准丹麦性别标记要多得多；iii) 孩子们产生的将确定限定词实现为后缀的表达明显多于按照常规规范将不定限定词表达为前名词性冠词；iv) 双语儿童比单语同龄人产生的标准丹麦语性别标记要少得多，