Grammatical Gender and Conceptualization: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Greek and English Speakers
- Title
- Grammatical Gender and Conceptualization: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Greek and English Speakers
- Creator
- Mamali , Maria-Eleni
- Abstract
- Forty native speakers of Greek and 33 of English viewed 24 images of items with masculine or feminine grammatical gender in Greek. The study, conducted in English, asked half the participants to personify each image before selecting three adjectives from a list of ten; the rest selected without personifying. No clear grammatical gender effect was found. Both groups used more feminine adjectives for natural and inanimate images—Greek speakers more so for natural, and English speakers for inanimate. Grammatically masculine pictures received more feminine adjectives by both groups, and the non-personification condition used more feminine adjectives overall.
- Keywords
- Grammatical gender, Object categorization, Semantic category
- Subject
- Psychology
- Date Available
- May 22, 2025
- Type
- Poster
- Course
- PS 4935 Final Year Project II
- Instructor
- Nega, Chrysanthi
- Session
- Poster Session
- Location
- Deree Corridor
- Event
- Year 2025 | 9th Annual Student Research and Creative Arts Symposium