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The scope of grammatical gender in Spanish: Transference to the conceptual level

open access: yesActa 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
Alba Casado   +2 more
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Exploring the nature of the gender-congruency effect: implicit gender activation and social bias

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
The aim of the study was to explore the nature of the gender-congruency effect, characterized by a facilitation on the processing of congruent words in grammatical gender.
Alba Casado   +6 more
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Examining Gender Bias in Languages with Grammatical Gender [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 2019
9 pages, 4 figures.
Pei Zhou   +6 more
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The acquisition of grammatical gender in L2 German by learners with Afrikaans, English or Italian as their L1

open access: yesStellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2012
In recent years there has been an increase in research on the acquisition of morphological aspects of a second language (L2). Specifically, a number of studies have been conducted on the acquisition of grammatical gender in the L2.
Ellis, Carla   +2 more
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Principles of arabic noun gender: An overview of learning difficulties

open access: yesJournal of Arts & Social Sciences, 2016
Arab linguists have distinguished between the animate and inanimate gender of nouns, where the former was assigned a male or female natural gender and the later a grammatical gender, and so the distinction between the real natural gender and the ...
Abdulhamid Alaqtash, Amjad Talafha
doaj   +1 more source

Is That “Mr.” or “Ms.” Lemon? An Investigation of Grammatical and Semantic Gender on the Perception of Household Odorants

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2022
Linguistic relativism is the idea that the structure of language influences thought. The present study investigates linguistic relativism by asking whether people who speak a gendered language think of objects in a way that is consistent with the ...
Theresa L. White   +2 more
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Grammatical Gender and Anthropomorphism: “It” Depends on the Language

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Consumers often anthropomorphize non-human entities. In this research, we investigate a novel antecedent of anthropomorphism: language. Some languages (e.g., English) make a grammatical distinction between humans (he, she) and non-humans (it), whereas other languages (e.g., French) do not (all objects are gender-marked).
Alican Mecit   +2 more
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The interaction of morphological and stereotypical gender information in Russian

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
Previous research, for example in English, French, German, and Spanish, has investigated the interplay between grammatical gender information and stereotype gender information (e.g.
Alan eGarnham, Yuri eYakovlev
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Eyetracking evidence for heritage speakers’ access to abstract syntactic agreement features in real-time processing

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
This paper presents the results of an eyetracking study that uses the Visual World Paradigm to determine whether heritage speakers of Polish can use grammatical gender cues to facilitate lexical retrieval of the subsequent noun during real time ...
Zuzanna Fuchs
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