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Direct linkSaalbach, Henrik; Imai, Mutsumi; Schalk, Lennart – Cognitive Science, 2012
In German, nouns are assigned to one of the three gender classes. For most animal names, however, the assignment is independent of the referent's biological sex. We examined whether German-speaking children understand this independence of grammar from semantics or whether they assume that grammatical gender is mapped onto biological sex when…
Descriptors: Grammar, Semantics, Animals, Speech Communication
