In a recent paper, Lera Boroditsky and Lauren A. Schmidt (2000) examined the degree to
which the linguistic category of grammatical gender of nouns influences people's perception …

Languages that have a grammatical gender system assign all nouns to one of two or more
classes called 'genders'.'Grammatical gender'(GG) is reflected in 'agreement', ie, the GG of a …

This paper reports on a pilot study aiming at a semantic and cognitive analysis of the
grammatical category of referential gender in American English. Grammatical categories are …

387 I. HAERTLÉ interpretation” 1. The suggestion that language significantly influences
thought was initially widely criticised, but has recently come back into favour, especially in its …

This article examines shared motifs in the history of the study of grammatical gender in North
American Indian and Indo-European languages. Specifically, I investigate the degree of …

Gender is a feature of special interest because it provides a dramatic demonstration of just
how different languages can be. For many of the Indo-European languages it is an important …

It is generally assumed that speakers of grammatical gender languages consider
grammatical gender arbitrary, but this assumption has never been tested. Research shows …

Experimental research on grammatical gender and cognition provides evidence for
grammatical gender effects on various aspects of speakers' cognition. Some researchers …

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) …

Grammatical gender is independent of biological sex for the majority of animal names (eg,
any giraffe, be it male or female, is grammatically treated as feminine). However, there is …