Does Grammatical Gender Influence Perception? A Study of Polish and French Speakers

Can the perception of a word be influenced by its grammatical gender? Can it happen that speakers of one language perceive an object to have masculine features, while speakers of another language perceive the same object to have feminine features? Previous studies suggest that this is the case, and...

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Main Author: Haertlé Izabella
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2017-12-01
Series:Psychology of Language and Communication
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/plc-2017-0019