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Thanks! Yes, at least from the perspective of grammatical gender, the literature and our findings suggest a language-dependent effect. This may reflect language-specific idiosyncrasies, such as morphological structure.

Inspired by—but extending—Boroditsky et al. (2003), these findings suggest that grammatical gender does not readily shape conceptual representations of gender-neutral objects.
#Linguisticrelativity #Grammaticalgender #Language #Thought #Cognitive

Results showed no evidence of grammatical gender effects in French, and only a weak effect in German.

Native French and German speakers were asked to describe objects using adjectives, which were then rated on a masculinity–femininity scale. We tested whether object descriptions aligned with the grammatical gender of object labels (e.g., bridge being masculine in French and feminine in German).

In this paper, we examine the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis, testing whether grammatical gender in language influences how speakers conceptualize objects.

The Influence of Grammatical Gender on Object Conceptualization Is Weak and Language‐Dependent Do we make gendered associations with objects whose linguistic labels have masculine/feminine grammatical gender? This question derives from the neo-Whorfian view that language shapes our conceptuali....

New publication — and my final paper from my PhD 🎓
with @Brent Strickland, @Sharon Peperkamp, @Alexandre Cremers, and @Camille Straboni

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New working paper with @hualinxiao.bsky.social

“From Parenthood to Prejudice: Associations Between Parenthood and Anti-Immigrant Sentiments in 38 Industrialized Nations”

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Upshot: Parenthood slightly increases your chances of being xenophobic in ESS data from 38 countries