Montefinese, M;
Ambrosini, E;
Roivainen, E;
(2019)
No grammatical gender effect on affective ratings: evidence from Italian and German languages.
Cognition and Emotion
, 33
(4)
pp. 848-854.
10.1080/02699931.2018.1483322.
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Abstract
In this study, we tested the linguistic relativity hypothesis by studying the effect of grammatical gender (feminine vs. masculine) on affective judgments of conceptual representation in Italian and German. In particular, we examined the within- and cross-language grammatical gender effect and its interaction with participants’ demographic characteristics (such as, the raters’ age and sex) on semantic differential scales (affective ratings of valence, arousal and dominance) in Italian and German speakers. We selected the stimuli and the relative affective measures from Italian and German adaptations of the ANEW (Affective Norms for English Words). Bayesian and frequentist analyses yielded evidence for the absence of within- and cross-languages effects of grammatical gender and sex- and age-dependent interactions. These results suggest that grammatical gender does not affect judgments of affective features of semantic representation in Italian and German speakers, since an overt coding of word grammar is not required. Although further research is recommended to refine the impact of the grammatical gender on properties of semantic representation, these results have implications for any strong view of the linguistic relativity hypothesis.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | No grammatical gender effect on affective ratings: evidence from Italian and German languages |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02699931.2018.1483322 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2018.1483322 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Linguistic relativity, grammatical gender, affective ratings, semantic representation |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10049772 |
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