Feminine fox, not so feminine box: constraints on linguistic relativity effects for grammatical and conceptual gender

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Výsledek na webu

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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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Feminine fox, not so feminine box: constraints on linguistic relativity effects for grammatical and conceptual gender

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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&lt;inf&gt;items&lt;/inf&gt; = 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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Feminine fox, not so feminine box: constraints on linguistic relativity effects for grammatical and conceptual gender

Popis výsledku anglicky

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&lt;inf&gt;items&lt;/inf&gt; = 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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Language and Cognition

ISSN

1866-9808

e-ISSN

1866-9859

Svazek periodika

17

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

e34

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

26

Strana od-do

1-26

Kód UT WoS článku

001435688400001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85218231882