Grammatical Gender Disambiguates Syntactically Similar Nouns

Recent research into grammatical gender from the perspective of information theory has shown how seemingly arbitrary gender systems can ease processing demands by guiding lexical prediction. When the gender of a noun is revealed in a preceding element, the list of possible candidates is reduced to t...

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Main Authors: Phillip G. Rogers, Stefan Th. Gries
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-04-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/4/520