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Does Grammatical Gender Influence Perception? A Study of Polish and French Speakers

open access: yesPsychology of Language and Communication, 2017
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

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2016
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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A three-dimensional approach to the gender/sex of nouns in Biblical Hebrew

open access: yesLiterator, 1994
The phenomenon of the gender/sex of nouns is normally handled two-dimensionally. Two levels are distinguished: (grammatical) gender and sex. Gender refers to the morphological and syntactic features of the noun, sex to the extralingual reality.
J. H. Kroeze
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The acquisition of grammatical categories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Grammatical categories encode conceptual domains and contrast them with others. They include the part-of-speech categories of words as well as morphological markers that encode functions like number, case, gender, tense, aspect or voice.
Behrens, Heike, Heike Behrens
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The Category of Gender in the English, Tatar and Russian languages: a Comparative Aspect

open access: yesЯзык и текст
The relevance of this study is conditioned by the fact that the study of languages in the comparative aspect contributes to the identification of common and specific features of linguistic material, the description of the national picture of ...
K.N. Gafiullina
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Género gramatical y motivación semántica

open access: yesEstudios de Lingüística, 1990
The present article, as the title shows, is a study of the grammatical gender in Spanish from the semantic startpoint, as have are of opinion that linguistic reference is bound up with grammatical motivation.
Aníbal Arias Barredo
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Gender attraction in sentence comprehension

open access: yesGlossa, 2021
Agreement attraction, where ungrammatical sentences are perceived as grammatical (e.g., *The key to the cabinets were rusty), has been influential in motivating models of memory access during language comprehension. It is contested, however, whether such
David Miller   +4 more
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Is un stylo sharper than une épée? Investigating the interaction of sound symbolism and grammatical gender in English and French speakers.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
While the arbitrariness of language has long been considered one of its defining features, there is growing evidence that non-arbitrariness also plays an important role.
David M Sidhu   +2 more
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Agreement patterns with a gente in Portuguese

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2013
This paper aims to provide a description of different agreement patterns with ‘a gente’ (we) in European Portuguese (EP) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP).
Célia Lopes   +2 more
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Attraction Effects for Verbal Gender and Number Are Similar but Not Identical: Self-Paced Reading Evidence From Modern Standard Arabic

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Previous work on the comprehension of agreement has shown that incorrectly inflected verbs do not trigger responses typically seen with fully ungrammatical verbs when the preceding sentential context furnishes a possibly matching distractor noun (i.e ...
Matthew A. Tucker   +3 more
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