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Follow-up: Grammatical gender in French: its impact on the interpretation of social gender in generic hybrid nouns ...
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Grammatical gender in French: its impact on the interpretation of social gender in generic hybrid nouns ...
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Abstract:
There is a growing interest among researchers working on French in the way grammatical gender in this language affects speakers' mental representations about social gender (e.g. Gygax et al. 2013, Gygax et al 2019, Richy & Burnett 2021). Grammatical gender refers to the classification of nouns in two or more classes, based on the agreement patterns involving the noun and its syntactic dependents. For instance, in French, the noun 'pain' "bread" is masculine, as manifested by the fact that it requires the masculine form for dependents such as determiners and adjectives (e.g. un bon pain "a good bread"). Feminine nouns such as baguette "baguette" require the feminine form for their dependents (e.g. une bonne baguette "a good baguette"). Systems of grammatical gender are often sex-based, namely the grammatical gender of human-denoting nouns correlates with the biological sex/social gender of the corresponding referents (Corbett 2013). For instance, in French, the noun referring to men is masculine ("un ...
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FOS Languages and literature; Linguistics; Social and Behavioral Sciences
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https://dx.doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/6wqja
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