Relating gender errors to morphosyntax and lexicon in advanced French interlanguage

A correlational analysis between accuracy levels of gender agreement--based on an analysis of 519 gender errors out of 9378 modifiers in the advanced French interlanguage of 27 Flemish L1 speakers--and morphosyntactic and lex ical variables, revealed a clear negative relationship between the number o f gender errors and fluency variables. No relation was found between gender errors and other types of agreement errors. This suggest that more advance d learners, whose interlanguage speech production process is more automatis ed or proceduralised, do commit fewer gender errors but that good mastery o f gender agreement does not imply an equally good mastery of other types of agreement.