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Direct linkVigliocco, Gabriella; Vinson, David P.; Paganelli, Federica; Dworzynski, Katharina – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2005
In 4 experiments, the authors addressed the mechanisms by which grammatical gender (in Italian and German) may come to affect meaning. In Experiments 1 (similarity judgments) and 2 (semantic substitution errors), the authors found Italian gender effects for animals but not for artifacts; Experiment 3 revealed no comparable effects in German. These…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, Nouns, German
