{"pk":26978,"title":"Effects of Grammatical Gender on Object Description","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Can grammatical gender influence how people conceptualize\nthe referents of nouns? Using an implicit measure, we\ninvestigated whether such an effect could be found in a task\nwhere neither grammatical nor biological gender is\nhighlighted. In the current study, conducted in English,\nspeakers of French, German and Romanian with knowledge\nof English were asked to generate adjectives they associate\nwith referents of nouns. Afterwards, the gender valence of the\nadjectives was measured. The results showed that participants\ngenerated more feminine adjectives for nouns with majority\nfeminine translations compared to nouns with majority\nmasculine translations. We found a stronger effect of\ngrammatical gender for some semantic categories than for\nothers. Significant effects of grammatical gender were present\nstarting with the 2nd adjective generated by participants\n(effects were stronger for adjectives generated 2nd and 3rd by\nparticipants, as opposed to the 1st adjective).","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"grammatical gender; conceptualization;\ncategorization; semantic features; representation"}],"section":"Talks: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3j37f380","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Arturs","middle_name":"","last_name":"Semenuks","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, San Diego","department":""},{"first_name":"Webb","middle_name":"","last_name":"Philips","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, San Diego","department":""},{"first_name":"Ioana","middle_name":"","last_name":"Dalca","name_suffix":"","institution":"Queen Mary University of London","department":""},{"first_name":"Cora","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kim","name_suffix":"","institution":"Freie Universität Berlin","department":""},{"first_name":"Lera","middle_name":"","last_name":"Boroditsky","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, San Diego","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26978/galley/16614/download/"}]}