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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"gender assignment"”.
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Preschoolers' gender assignment to an androgynous storybook character
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The Assignment of Grammatical Gender in German: Testing Optimal Gender Assignment Theory
The assignment of grammatical gender in German is a notoriously problematic phenomenon due to the apparent opacity of the gender assignment system (e.g. Comrie 1999: 461). Various models of German gender assignment have been proposed (e.g. Spitz 1965, Köpcke 1982, Corbett 1991, Wegener 1995), but …
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Why wait? Psycholinguistic investigations of the roles of learning condition and gender stability in L2 gender-based anticipation
It is well documented that grammatical gender poses a pervasive problem for adult second language learners. Whereas native speakers can use prenominal grammatical gender marking to anticipate upcoming nouns in sentences, L2 learners often show a reduced or absent ability to use gender in this …
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Evaluation of Islamic perspectives regarding a medical condition known as disorders of sex development (DSD)
… is required to resolve biomedical issues over gender ambiguity. This research sets out, in order, to: i) conduct an in-depth research study from Islamic perspectives on cases related to sex ambiguity in terms of various types of khunthā and associated gender assignment by taking into account …
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Generic pronouns and their influence on the speakers' language awareness
The English language is a genderless language in which nouns receive grammatical gender through natural gender assignment. The generic pronoun encoded in English is the pronoun he, which next to its secondary meaning of the generic also has the primary meaning of the third person masculine …