Bi-/multilingualism and the perceptions of the gender of objects
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2010
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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Abstract
The newest research confirms the ‘weak’ version of the linguistic relativity hypothesis,
according to which the language we speak influences to some extent the way we think. At the
same time, it has been shown that the conceptual representations of reality which have been
shaped by the mother tongue from birth play a significant role while using an L2 (L3 etc.),
especially when it is weaker than the L1. The present article describes one such conceptual
domain – the (non-linguistic) categorization of objects according to their perceived gender, which
is influenced by the grammatical gender of their names.
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linguistic relativity, conceptual transfer, nominal gender, L2 and L3 learners, bilinguals and multilinguals
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Glottodidactica vol. XXXVI, 2010, pp. 45-56.