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Gender and number in the nominal domain: An introduction

open access: yesCatalan Journal of Linguistics, 2020
In this introduction, we provide a general overview of the properties of gender and number, two nominal grammatical categories that this special issue is devoted to. Grammatical gender and number have been studied from a variety of theoretical viewpoints
Boban Arsenijević, Olga Borik
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Transfer effects in gender assignment and gender concord in L3 Swedish: A case study

open access: yesModerna Språk, 2021
This case study examines transfer effects in the acquisition of grammatical gender in L3/Ln. A learner of L3 Swedish, who had previously acquired two grammatical gender systems: one in his native Polish and the other in his non-native Norwegian ...
Kamil Długosz
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Etymology and grammatical gender of generic names in Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera)

open access: yesIllinois Natural History Survey bulletin, 2022
The World Auchenorrhyncha Database comprises nomenclatural information for all known taxa in this suborder of Hemipteran insects (leafhoppers, planthoppers, treehoppers, cicadas, and spittle bugs).
D. Dmitriev
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Grammatical Gender and Declension Class in Language Change: A Study of the Loss of Feminine Gender in Norwegian

open access: yesJournal Of Germanic Linguistics, 2021
In this paper, we investigate an ongoing change in the grammatical gender system of Norwegian. Previous research has shown that the feminine form of the indefinite article is quickly disappearing from several dialects, which has led to claims that the ...
Yulia Rodina, Marit Westergaard
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Dead, but Won’t Lie Down? Grammatical Gender among Norwegians

open access: yesJournal Of Germanic Linguistics, 2021
This paper examines grammatical gender from the sociolinguistic perspective. The question pursued is to what extent exponents of grammatical gender are tied indexically to identity categories.
T. Opsahl
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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Predicting and Explaining French Grammatical Gender

open access: yesSIGTYP, 2021
Grammatical gender may be determined by semantics, orthography, phonology, or could even be arbitrary. Identifying patterns in the factors that govern noun genders can be useful for language learners, and for understanding innate linguistic sources of ...
Saumya Yashmohini Sahai   +1 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The influence of semantic and phonological factors on syntactic decisions: An event-related brain potential study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
During language production and comprehension, information about a word's syntactic properties is sometimes needed. While the decision about the grammatical gender of a word requires access to syntactic knowledge, it has also been hypothesized that ...
A Jabes   +64 more
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Gender representation in different languages and grammatical marking on pronouns: when beauticians, musicians, and mechanics remain men [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Gygax, Gabriel, Sarrasin, Oakhill, and Garnham (2008) showed that readers form a mental representation of gender that is based on grammatical gender in French and German (i.e., masculine supposedly interpretable as a generic form) but is based on ...
Gabriel, Ute   +4 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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