L1 Grammatical Gender Variation through the Representation in the Lexicon

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11051997
AutoresReg Klassen (0000-0002-1909-863X, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, autor de correspondencia), Björn Lundquist (0000-0002-1746-6769, UiT The Arctic University of Norway), Marit Westergaard (0000-0003-2702-9615, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Año2023
Volumen52
Número2
Páginas359-380
Fecha de publicación2023-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Psycholinguistic Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-6905 • E-ISSN: 1573-6555
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s10936-022-09867-7
PMID35362844
OpenAlexW4221081702
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas41

In most studies on gender processing, native speakers of the same language are treated as a homogeneous group. The current study investigates to what extent an ongoing change in the gender system of Norwegian (a development from three to two genders, involving the loss of feminine) may be reflected in processing. We carried out a gender decision task in which speakers were presented with 32 nouns of each gender (masculine, feminine, neuter) and asked to select the corresponding indefinite article. Based on these results, we identified three different groups: three-gender speakers, two-gender speakers, and an unstable gender use group that used feminine gender to varying degrees. This division corresponded with clear differences in RTs, the two-gender speakers being faster overall with no difference across conditions, the three-gender group being slower with masculine, and the unstable group being slower with both masculine and feminine. Thus, our results indicate that native speakers of the same language can in fact have different underlying representations of gender in the lexicon

Cognition · Gender identity · Gender psychology · Grammatical Gender · Lexicon · Linguistics · Norwegian · Noun · Psycholinguistics · Representation (politics) · Variation (astronomy) · Gender Studies in Language · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Social Psychology