The role of noun termination in grammatical gender assignment in Polish: A psycholinguistic study

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dc.contributor.authorDługosz, Kamil
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-31T08:28:38Z
dc.date.available2024-12-31T08:28:38Z
dc.date.issued2023-12-20
dc.description.abstractPrevious research has shown that speakers of a variety of languages benefit from formal gender cues, e.g. word ending, when assigning grammatical gender to nouns. However, the extent to which Polish speakers compute gender based on such cues has not yet been examined. Therefore, the goal of this study was to investigate the role of noun termination in gender assignment in Polish on psycholinguistic grounds. The paper reports on a timed Gender Decision Task which was carried out with 24 adult native speakers of Polish. Participants responded significantly faster to gender-transparent than to gender-opaque feminine nouns. However, no effect of noun termination was observed for masculine and neuter nouns. The results provide psycholinguistic evidence that the ending -a constitutes the strongest gender cue that Polish speakers can depend on when assigning gender to nouns, arguably because it is the only noun ending that shows high availability and reliability in parallel.
dc.identifier.citationDługosz, K. The role of noun termination in grammatical gender assignment in Polish: A psycholinguistic study. Die Welt der Slaven: Internationale Halbjahresschrift für Slavistik, 2023, 68 (2), 291-303
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.13173/WS.68.2.291
dc.identifier.issn0043-2520
dc.identifier.issn2193-5475
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10593/27985
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherHarrassowitz Verlag
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Germanyen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/de/
dc.subjectgrammatical gender
dc.subjectgender assignment
dc.subjectgender access
dc.subjectgender cues
dc.subjectPolish
dc.titleThe role of noun termination in grammatical gender assignment in Polish: A psycholinguistic study
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article

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