Many languages assign nouns to a grammatical gender class, such that “bed” might be
assigned masculine gender in one language (eg, Italian) but feminine gender in another …

The purpose of this paper is to extend the linguistic relativity hypothesis (ie, the language we
speak affects the way we think) to a script relativity hypothesis (ie, the script in which we read …

This study investigated the effects of individual word frequency, collocational frequency, and
association on L1 and L2 collocational processing. An acceptability judgment task was …

We analyze the semantic ambiguity of the grammatically masculine form in languages
where this form has more than one meaning (eg, French, German, English to some extent) …

We theorize that linguistic grammar structures related to gender, pronoun use, and
politeness distinctions influence individuals' cultural values toward diversity, including …

Many languages assign nouns to grammatical gender categories (eg, masculine and
feminine), and inanimate objects often have different genders in different languages. In a …

Human experience and communication are centred on events, and event apprehension is a
rapid process that draws on the visual perception and immediate categorization of event …

People with genders outside of the binary prefer using language that matches and affirms
their identities. This can pose a challenge to translators who are translating into gendered …

Language is the ultimate tool to describe our environment, communicate about our inner
states, and accumulate knowledge that can be transferred between generations. Here …

This chapter considers a further normative question: whether we ought to have gender-
specific terms in natural language at all. They argue that natural languages ought to have …