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Aspects of translating gender [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Grammatical gender and the related concept, 'social gender', are important linguistic categories which, in this article, are used to illustrate that the translation process is not only a 'cross-cultural transfer' but also a cross-ideological transfer. By
Nissen, Uwe Kjær
core   +3 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

‘She says, he says’: Does the sex of an instructor interact with the grammatical gender of targets in a perspective-taking task? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Aims and objectives: It has been claimed that grammatical gender can influence the perception of objects as being potentially more ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’.
Beeston S.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Grammatical Gender in the German Multiethnolect

open access: yesJournal Of Germanic Linguistics, 2021
While major restructurings and simplifications have been reported for gender systems of other Germanic languages in multiethnolectal speech, this article demonstrates that the three-way gender distinction of German is relatively stable among young ...
P. Auer, V. Siegel
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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

Gender assignment and gender agreement in advanced French interlanguage: a cross-sectional study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
An analysis of 519 gender errors (out of 9,378 modifiers) in the advanced French interlanguage of 27 Dutch L1 speakers confirms earlier findings that gender assignment and/or agreement remain problematic for learners at all levels.
Dewaele, Jean-Marc, Véronique, D.
core   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Gender agreement attraction in Greek comprehension [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This work explores gender agreement attraction in comprehension. Attraction occurs when an agreement error (such as, “the key to the cabinets are rusty”) goes unnoticed, leading to the illusion of grammaticality due to a mismatch between the value of the
Acuña-Fariña   +74 more
core   +2 more sources

Grammatical gender in translation [PDF]

open access: yesSecond Language Research, 2008
In three experiments native speakers of Czech translated bare nouns and gender-marked adjective + noun phrases into German, their second language (L2). In Experiments 1-3 we explored the so-called gender interference effect from first language (L1) as observed in previous picture naming studies (naming latencies were longer when the L1 noun and its L2
Bordag, Denisa, Pechmann, Thomas
openaire   +2 more sources

Examining Gender Bias in Languages with Grammatical Gender [PDF]

open access: yesConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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