Feminine fox, not so feminine box: constraints on linguistic relativity effects for grammatical and conceptual gender
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2025.3" target="_blank" >10.1017/langcog.2025.3</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Feminine fox, not so feminine box: constraints on linguistic relativity effects for grammatical and conceptual gender
Original language description
The influence of grammatical gender on conceptual representations of gender has proven to be a controversial topic in the linguistic relativity literature, with empirical evidence in support of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis being highly task and context-dependent, as well as being modulated by the type of items being investigated (animates/inanimates). In this paper, we take a megastudy approach in order to investigate differences in results based on explicit and implicit paradigms that modulate the role of language and gender in their design. We present analyses of three experiments focussing on participants (total N = 4,621) with a grammatically gendered L1 (Czech), a non-grammatically gendered L1 (English) and L1-Czech in L2-English, and on three distinct semantic categories - people, animals and inanimates (total N<inf>items</inf> = 1,208). Our results indicate that the most reliable effects of grammatical gender influencing conceptual gender (outside of the domain of people) are observed for items representing animals, with Czech participants showing congruency effects in both explicit and implicit paradigms, even in their L2. The evidence for effects on inanimates is substantially weaker and is highly restrained to explicit tasks. We discuss these results in relation to the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis and highlight important methodological considerations for future research.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Language and Cognition
ISSN
1866-9808
e-ISSN
1866-9859
Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
e34
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
1-26
UT code for WoS article
001435688400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85218231882