English Speakers' Implicit Gender Concepts Influence Their Processing of French Grammatical Gender: Evidence for Semantically Mediated Cross-Linguistic Influence. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Second language (L2) learners often show influence from their first language (L1) in all domains of language. This cross-linguistic influence could, in some cases, be mediated by semantics.
Nicoladis E +2 more
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The effects of grammatical gender on the processing of occupational role names in Slovene: An event-related potential study [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The event-related potential method has proven to be a useful tool for studying the effects of gender information in language. Studies have shown that mismatch between the antecedent and the following referent triggers two ERP components, N400 and P600 ...
Jasna Mikić Ljubi +5 more
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Brain potentials reveal differential processing of masculine and feminine grammatical gender in native Spanish speakers. [PDF]
Psychophysiology, 2021 Studies of Spanish grammatical gender have shown that native speakers exploit gender cues in determiners to facilitate speech processing and are sensitive to gender mismatches. However, past research has not considered attested distributional asymmetries
Beatty-Martínez AL +3 more
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The scope of grammatical gender in Spanish: Transference to the conceptual level
Acta Psychologica, 2021 The aim of the present study was to explore under what circumstances we could observe a transference from grammatical gender to the conceptual representation of sex in Spanish, a two-gender language. The participants performed a lexical decision task and
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Grammatical gender universalities underlying uniform mental representations of the world: Myth or reality? [PDF]
HeliyonThe subject of grammatical gender and cognition has been continuously examined in psycholinguistics, wherein findings show essential support for gender congruency effects, suggesting that grammar lends matrices for speakers’ mental representations. Based
Elena Dubenko
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Implicit Grammatical Gender Representation in Italian Children with Autism without Intellectual/Language Disorder [PDF]
Children, 2023 Grammatical language development in individuals with autism (without intellectual/language impairment) is mostly qualitatively comparable to language development in typically developing children of the same age.
Caterina Artuso, Carmen Belacchi
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Grammatical Gender Disambiguates Syntactically Similar Nouns [PDF]
Entropy, 2022 Recent research into grammatical gender from the perspective of information theory has shown how seemingly arbitrary gender systems can ease processing demands by guiding lexical prediction.
Phillip G. Rogers, Stefan Th. Gries
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Examining Gender Bias in Languages with Grammatical Gender [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 2019 Recent studies have shown that word embeddings exhibit gender bias inherited from the training corpora. However, most studies to date have focused on quantifying and mitigating such bias only in English.
Pei Zhou +6 more
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Assignment of Grammatical Gender in Heritage Greek. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 This study investigates the acquisition of grammatical gender in Heritage Greek as acquired by children (6–8 years of age) and adolescents (15–18 years) growing up in Adelaide, South Australia. The determiner elicitation task fromVarlokosta (2005)was employed to assess the role of morphological and semantic cues when it comes to gender assignment for ...
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Grammatical gender and anthropomorphism: "It" depends on the language.
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 When English speakers anthropomorphize animals or objects, they refer to such entities using human pronouns (e.g., he or she instead of it). Unlike English, which marks gender only for humans, gendered languages such as French grammatically mark gender ...
Alican Mecit, Tina M. Lowrey, L. Shrum
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