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An empirical study on the contribution of formal and semantic features to the grammatical gender of nouns

Linguistics Vanguard: Multimodal Online Journal, 2021
Abstract This study conducts an experimental evaluation of two hypotheses about the contributions of formal and semantic features to the grammatical gender assignment of nouns. One of the hypotheses (Corbett and Fraser 2000) claims that semantic features dominate formal ones.
Ali Basirat, Marc Allassonnière-Tang
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Why do He and She Disagree: The Role of Binary Morphological Features in Grammatical Gender Agreement in German

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
AbstractIn many languages, grammatical gender is an inherent property of nouns and, as such, forms a basis for agreement relations between nouns and their dependent elements (e.g., adjectives, determiners). Mental gender representation is traditionally assumed to be categorial, with categorial gender nodes corresponding to the given gender ...
Margrét Seyboth, Frank Domahs
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Linguistic features of fragrances: The role of grammatical gender and gender associations [PDF]

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 2019
Odors are often difficult to identify and name, which leaves them vulnerable to the influence of language. The present study tests the boundaries of the effect of language on odor cognition by examining the effect of grammatical gender. We presented participants with male and female fragrances paired with descriptions of masculine or feminine ...
Laura J Speed, Asifa Majid, Majid Asifa   +2 more
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Grammatical gender selection and phrasal word order in child heritage Spanish: A feature re-assembly approach

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2015
The present study examines the development of grammatical gender assignment, agreement, and noun-adjective word order in child heritage Spanish among thirty-two Spanish–English bilingual children born and raised in the United States. A picture-naming task revealed significant overextension of the masculine form and high levels of ungrammatical word ...
ALEJANDRO CUZA, ROCÍO PÉREZ-TATTAM
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L2 multiple nominal feature agreement in German: the acquisition of grammatical gender in a formal environment

International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 2014
AbstractThis work reports on accuracy in grammatical gender marking by Italian adults learning German in a formal environment. It aims at investigating whether adult speakers of a [+gender] language who are acquiring a [+gender] L2 language can master a complex gender agreement system given the crucial role played either by other morphosyntactic ...
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Implications of grammatical gender for the theory of uninterpretable features

2010
I argue that grammatical gender is semantically empty but intrinsically valued, so the strict linkage between uninterpretable and unvalued in Chomsky (2001) cannot be correct. I then demonstrate that gender is infinitely reusable as an “ activity” feature; in contrast, abstract Case activates a DP for just one Agree relation.
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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL GENDER IN ENGLISH AND MARATHI: STRUCTURE, FEATURE, FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS, AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC CONSEQUENCES

ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts
Grammatical gender playact a pivotal role in categorise noun, regulate the structure and function of terminology worldwide based on semantic, morphological, or sometimes arbitrary measure. This composition presents a comparative analytic thinking of the grammatical gender system of rules in English and Marathi, two voice communication from the Indo ...
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Translation of Structures with Social and Grammatical Gender in the English Language (Based on Feature Film Scripts)

2023
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