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| Title | NPR Piece on Language and Gender |
| Body | From http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102518565 Shakespeare Had Roses All Wrong by Robert Krulwich April 6, 2009 Lera Boroditsky proposes that because the word for "bridge" in German — die brucke — is a feminine noun, and the word for "bridge" in Spanish — el puente — is a masculine noun, native speakers unconsciously give nouns the characteristics of their grammatical gender. "Does treating chairs as masculine and beds as feminine in the grammar make Russian speakers think of chairs as being more like men and beds as more like women in some way?" she asks in a recent essay. "It turns out that it does. In one study, we asked German and Spanish speakers to describe objects having opposite gender assignment in those two languages. The descriptions they gave differed in a way predicted by grammatical gender." Read the full article and listen to the recorded segment at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102518565 . |
| Source | NPR |
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