Grammatical Gender Effects on Cognition: Implications for Language Learning and Language Use

Autor/inn/en	Vigliocco, Gabriella; Vinson, David P.; Paganelli, Federica; Dworzynski, Katharina
Titel	Grammatical Gender Effects on Cognition: Implications for Language Learning and Language Use
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 134 (2005) 4, S.501-520 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-3445
Schlagwörter	Semantics; Grammar; Nouns; German; Language Usage; Italian; Language Processing; Language Research; Correlation; Contrastive Linguistics; Cognitive Mapping; Sex + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Semantik; Grammatik; Deutscher; Sprachgebrauch; Italienisch; Sprachverarbeitung; Sprachforschung; Korrelation; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Geschlecht; Geschlechtsverkehr
Abstract	In 4 experiments, the authors addressed the mechanisms by which grammatical gender (in Italian and German) may come to affect meaning. In Experiments 1 (similarity judgments) and 2 (semantic substitution errors), the authors found Italian gender effects for animals but not for artifacts; Experiment 3 revealed no comparable effects in German. These results suggest that gender effects arise as a generalization from an established association between gender of nouns and sex of human referents, extending to nouns referring to sexuated entities. Across languages, such effects are found when the language allows for easy mapping between gender of nouns and sex of human referents (Italian) but not when the mapping is less transparent (German). A final experiment provided further constraints: These effects during processing arise at a lexical-semantic level rather than at a conceptual level. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10