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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"grammatical gender"”.
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Grammatical Gender and Transformation in Ovid's "Metamorphoses"
… between the biological sex and social gender of its characters on the one hand, and the grammatical gender of the things that they become on the other. Romans understood biological sex and grammatical gender to be connected, as Anthony Corbeill’s 2015 Sexing the World: Grammatical …
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Grammatical Gender Representation and Processing in Advanced Second Language Learners of French
… French as a foreign language is mastering the gender system. Although there are theories that account for how French native speakers (NSs) master their gender system, it is not fully understood why second language (L2) learners are unable to do the same. The goal of the present study was to …
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Grammatical Gender and Human Differences in Literature: France and England, 1100-1300
This thesis argues that the modern concept of ‘gender’ as a fact of social organisation and an aspect of individual identity is the metaphorisation of a grammatical concept, and that this metaphor has a history. A major inflection point in this history is the period between 1100 and 1300, when the …
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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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Can Language Affect Thought? An Overview of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Examination of the Grammatical Gender in Regard to the Theory
… of time and space, colors as well as the grammatical gender. In this paper all factors will be examined, however the main focus will be on the grammatical gender in an attempt to find affirmative evidence for the hypothesis. A small survey is conducted where the grammatical gender is …
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Gendered expectations for gendered companies: the effect of the grammatical gender of company names on the stock price momentum of Latin American and Spanish stocks
… stock prices to examine the hypothesis that grammatical gender assignments of a company’s name passes gender stereotypes onto the company itself, and consequently changes investors’ expectation of the stock performance. We gathered historical stock price data from Spanish speaking countries, …
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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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L2 gender facilitation and inhibition in spoken word recognition
This dissertation investigates the role of grammatical gender facilitation and inhibition in second language (L2) learners' spoken word recognition. Native speakers of languages that have grammatical gender are sensitive to gender marking when hearing and recognizing a word. Gender facilitation …
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Form and function of expressive morphology: a case study of Russian
… the formal properties (syntactic category, grammatical gender and inflectional class) of the derived form. As modifiers, size suffixes do not determine the formal properties of the derived form. Attitude suffixes can attach both to category-free √Roots and to categories (n/a/v), while size …
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O gênero Selenops Dufour in Latreille, 1819, no Brasil (Araneae - Selenopidae)
… Code of Zoological Nomenclature. In Latin grammatical gender of the genus Selenops is femine.
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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 …
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The Linguistic Expression of Gender Identity: Albania's 'Sworn Virgins'
… ‘social men’. Unlike other documented ‘third genders’ (Kulick 1999), burrneshat are not motivated by considerations of personal identity or sexual desire, but rather by the need to fulfill patriarchal roles within a traditional social code that views women as property. Burrneshat are thus seen …
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Examining native and non-native establishment of dependencies in the online processing of coordinate phrase agreement in Spanish: An event-related potentials study
The present study investigates the processing of gender agreement with coordinate noun phrases in native speakers of Spanish and English-speaking second language (L2) learners of Spanish. In Spanish, nouns are assigned a grammatical gender (masculine/feminine), and adjectives must agree with the …
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Reexamining Linguistic Relativity: What Adult Bilinguals Can Teach Us About Culture, Language, And Cognition
… task to investigate influences of L1 (grammatical gender) under L2 conditions. In both studies, there was no evidence in support of either inter-language or intra-speaker relativity. There was evidence in support of usage-based accounts of language: bilinguals' use of informal English …
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Gender and number agreement processing in Spanish
… the given adjective. Agreement errors in the gender and number of the adjective and in the number of the verb were analyzed. In the first experiment, the possible differences between two types of gender were studied. Spanish nouns can be divided into two types according to whether their gender …
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Towards Gender-Inclusive Machine Translation
… yet they systematically encode and perpetuate gender bias. When translating into grammatical gender languages such as Italian, Spanish, and German, these systems default to masculine forms for gender-ambiguous referents, reinforce stereotypical associations between gender and social roles, and …
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A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective
… of differential object marking, the loss of grammatical gender distinctions, and the neuterisation of noun inflection. My aim is to provide a diachronic account of the innovations that Cappadocian has undergone in the three domains mentioned above. Αll the innovations examined in this study …
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A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective
… of differential object marking, the loss of grammatical gender distinctions, and the neuterisation of noun inflection. My aim is to provide a diachronic account of the innovations that Cappadocian has undergone in the three domains mentioned above. !ll the innovations examined in this study …
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Animal spirits: Examining stock market irrationality via effects of language
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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