The Interaction of Morphological and Stereotypical Gender Information in Russian.

ABSTRACT: Previous research, for example in English, French, German, and Spanish, has investigated the interplay between grammatical gender information and stereotype gender information (e.g., that secretaries are usually female, in many cultures), in the interpretation of both singular noun phrases (the secretary) and plural nouns phrases, particularly so-called generic masculines-nouns that have masculine grammatical gender but that should be able to refer to both groups of men and mixed groups of men and women. Since the studies have been conducted in cultures with broadly similar stereotypes, the effects generally reflect differences in the grammatical systems of the languages. Russian has a more complex grammatical gender system than the languages previously studied, and, unlike those languages

SUBMITTER: Garnham A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4644804 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature