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A Language Index of Grammatical Gender Dimensions to Study the Impact of Grammatical Gender on the Way We Perceive Women and Men
Psycholinguistic investigations of the way readers and speakers perceive gender have shown several biases associated with how gender is linguistically realized in language. Although such variations across languages offer interesting grounds for legitimate cross-linguistic comparisons, pertinent char...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6644918/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31379661 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01604 |
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author | Gygax, Pascal Mark Elmiger, Daniel Zufferey, Sandrine Garnham, Alan Sczesny, Sabine von Stockhausen, Lisa Braun, Friederike Oakhill, Jane |
author_facet | Gygax, Pascal Mark Elmiger, Daniel Zufferey, Sandrine Garnham, Alan Sczesny, Sabine von Stockhausen, Lisa Braun, Friederike Oakhill, Jane |
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description | Psycholinguistic investigations of the way readers and speakers perceive gender have shown several biases associated with how gender is linguistically realized in language. Although such variations across languages offer interesting grounds for legitimate cross-linguistic comparisons, pertinent characteristics of grammatical systems – especially in terms of their gender asymmetries – have to be clearly identified. In this paper, we present a language index for researchers interested in the effect of grammatical gender on the mental representations of women and men. Our index is based on five main language groups (i.e., grammatical gender languages, languages with a combination of grammatical gender and natural gender, natural gender languages, genderless languages with few traces of grammatical gender and genderless languages) and three sets of specific features (morphology, masculine-male generics and asymmetries). Our index goes beyond existing ones in that it provides specific dimensions relevant to those interested in psychological and sociological impacts of language on the way we perceive women and men. We also offer a critical discussion of any endeavor to classify languages according to grammatical gender. |
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spelling | pubmed-66449182019-08-02 A Language Index of Grammatical Gender Dimensions to Study the Impact of Grammatical Gender on the Way We Perceive Women and Men Gygax, Pascal Mark Elmiger, Daniel Zufferey, Sandrine Garnham, Alan Sczesny, Sabine von Stockhausen, Lisa Braun, Friederike Oakhill, Jane Front Psychol Psychology Psycholinguistic investigations of the way readers and speakers perceive gender have shown several biases associated with how gender is linguistically realized in language. Although such variations across languages offer interesting grounds for legitimate cross-linguistic comparisons, pertinent characteristics of grammatical systems – especially in terms of their gender asymmetries – have to be clearly identified. In this paper, we present a language index for researchers interested in the effect of grammatical gender on the mental representations of women and men. Our index is based on five main language groups (i.e., grammatical gender languages, languages with a combination of grammatical gender and natural gender, natural gender languages, genderless languages with few traces of grammatical gender and genderless languages) and three sets of specific features (morphology, masculine-male generics and asymmetries). Our index goes beyond existing ones in that it provides specific dimensions relevant to those interested in psychological and sociological impacts of language on the way we perceive women and men. We also offer a critical discussion of any endeavor to classify languages according to grammatical gender. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6644918/ /pubmed/31379661 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01604 Text en Copyright © 2019 Gygax, Elmiger, Zufferey, Garnham, Sczesny, von Stockhausen, Braun and Oakhill. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Gygax, Pascal Mark Elmiger, Daniel Zufferey, Sandrine Garnham, Alan Sczesny, Sabine von Stockhausen, Lisa Braun, Friederike Oakhill, Jane A Language Index of Grammatical Gender Dimensions to Study the Impact of Grammatical Gender on the Way We Perceive Women and Men |
title | A Language Index of Grammatical Gender Dimensions to Study the Impact of Grammatical Gender on the Way We Perceive Women and Men |
title_full | A Language Index of Grammatical Gender Dimensions to Study the Impact of Grammatical Gender on the Way We Perceive Women and Men |
title_fullStr | A Language Index of Grammatical Gender Dimensions to Study the Impact of Grammatical Gender on the Way We Perceive Women and Men |
title_full_unstemmed | A Language Index of Grammatical Gender Dimensions to Study the Impact of Grammatical Gender on the Way We Perceive Women and Men |
title_short | A Language Index of Grammatical Gender Dimensions to Study the Impact of Grammatical Gender on the Way We Perceive Women and Men |
title_sort | language index of grammatical gender dimensions to study the impact of grammatical gender on the way we perceive women and men |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6644918/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31379661 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01604 |
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