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Speaker sex influences processing of grammatical gender. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
Spoken words carry linguistic and indexical information to listeners. Abstractionist models of spoken word recognition suggest that indexical information is stripped away in a process called normalization to allow processing of the linguistic message to ...
Michael S Vitevitch   +3 more
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Grammatical gender and anthropomorphism: "It" depends on the language.

open access: yesSSRN 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
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

Grammatical gender and cognition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Empirical research on "structural relativity" (Lucy 1996) has indicated that the grammatical structuring of languages impacts on speakers' thinking.
Alvanoudi, Angeliki   +1 more
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Grammatical Gender in Pashto Language [PDF]

open access: yes̒Ilm-i Zabān
Grammatical gender is a syntactic distinction that is manifested in nouns and adjectives. In Pashto, grammatical gender (feminine and masculine) exists.
Rahela Hamidzai
doaj   +2 more sources

Spanish Grammatical Gender Interference in Papiamentu

open access: yesLanguages, 2019
The aim of this study is to determine whether Spanish-like gender agreement causes interference in speakers of Papiamentu (a Western Romance-lexified creole language) who also speak Spanish. Papiamentu and Spanish are highly cognate languages in terms of
Jorge R. Valdés Kroff   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Grammatical Gender

open access: yes, 2023
Grammatical gender and object perception in German and ...
Hannah De Mulder, Pia Kurz
core   +9 more sources

Grammatical Gender and Sex

open access: yesSelected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, 1993
Although Greek nouns, as opposed tο English nouns, are divided into three major gender classes, they do not reflect any direct correlation between biological gender, i.e. sex, and grammatical gender.
Valiouli, Maria
core   +3 more sources

Measuring Gender Bias in Word Embeddings of Gendered Languages Requires Disentangling Grammatical Gender Signals [PDF]

open access: yesAAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2022
Does the grammatical gender of a language interfere when measuring the semantic gender information captured by its word embeddings? A number of anomalous gender bias measurements in the embeddings of gendered languages suggest this possibility.
Shiva Omrani Sabbaghi, Aylin Caliskan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The developmental trajectory of grammatical gender: evidence from Arabic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
There is a well-documented bias among children to disproportionately rely on morphophonological cues to determine noun gender classes (Culbertson et al., 2019; Gagliardi & Lidz , 2014; Karmiloff-Smith, 1979; Levy, 1983; Pérez-Pereira, 1991).
Alali, Hawra
core   +3 more sources

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