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The present study investigates gender differences in the use of Namibian German versus Standard German in multilingual German-speakers raised in Namibia.
Britta Schulte
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Gender inferences: Grammatical features and their impact on the representation of gender in bilinguals [PDF]
We investigated the effects of grammatical and stereotypical gender information on the comprehension of human referent role nouns among bilinguals of a grammatical (French) and a natural gender language (English). In a sentence evaluation paradigm, participants judged the acceptability of a gender-specific sentence referring to either a group ...
Sato, Sayaka +2 more
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Grammatical Gender Features in English and Arabic
Gender in language is like sex in the outside world . Sex is considered as the most important basis for gender distinction . Sex stands for either male or female creatures.The main purpose behind this paper is to provide a comparative study between English and Arabic gender . It deals with gender as a grammatical category .
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This is a study of Russian nominalizing evaluative suffixes that form nouns of the -a-declension. Such suffixes are very interesting to investigate because they can consistently change the animacy, declension class, and grammatical gender of the base to ...
Olga Steriopolo
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A Fork in the Road: Grammatical Gender Assignment to Nouns in Spanish Dialects
Spanish nouns are classified as either feminine or masculine. Although some nouns vary depending on their denotation (such as niño ‘male child’ vs. niña ‘female child’), in most cases a fixed gender is assigned.
Florencio Del Barrio de la Rosa
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THE PROBLEM OF THE GENDER IN THE FRENCH LANGUAGE: LEXICAL AND GRAMMAR LEVELS
Purpose. It is the gender-related features of the lexical and grammatical levels of the French language that are investigated. In French, there are two genders, i.e., male and female, the masculine gender being a dominant one. Methodology.
Zareta Valerievna Cherkesova
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Like many other languages, German employs a linguistic category called “grammatical gender.” In gender-marking languages each noun is assigned to a particular gender-class (in German: masculine, feminine or neuter) and other words in a sentence which are
Jürgen Cholewa +4 more
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PERCEPTION OF ASSOCIATIVE GENDER IN DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS-A TURKISH LANGUAGE CASE
Turkish has no noun classes or grammatical gender. However, in terms of biological gender, it can be said that lexical/semantic gender is reflected to nouns lexically.
Seda Gökmen, Dilek Peçenek
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Does Grammatical Gender Influence Perception? A Study of Polish and French Speakers
Can the perception of a word be influenced by its grammatical gender? Can it happen that speakers of one language perceive an object to have masculine features, while speakers of another language perceive the same object to have feminine features ...
Haertlé Izabella
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Exploring Grammatical Complexity Crosslinguistically
This paper proposes a set of principles and methodologies for the crosslinguistic investigation of grammatical complexity and applies them to the in-depth study of one grammatical domain, gender.
Francesca Di Garbo
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