When language affects cognition and when it does not: An analysis of grammatical gender and classification
| Autor: | Maria D. Sera, James N. Forbes, Wanda Rodríguez, Diane Poulin Dubois, Chryle Elieff, Melissa Clark Burch |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Cross-Cultural Comparison Concept Formation media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Models Psychological Language Development German Cognition Developmental Neuroscience Humans Child Set (psychology) General Psychology Language media_common Grammatical gender Grammar Linguistics language.human_language Focus (linguistics) Language development Categorization Child Preschool language Affect (linguistics) Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 131:377-397 |
| ISSN: | 1939-2222 0096-3445 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/0096-3445.131.3.377 |
| Popis: | The focus of this work was on the relation between grammatical gender and categorization. In one set of studies, monolingual English-, Spanish-, French-, and German-speaking children and adults assigned male and female voices to inanimate objects. Results from Spanish and French speakers indicated effects of grammatical gender on classification; results from German speakers did not. A connectionist model simulated the contradicting findings. The connectionist networks were also used to investigate which aspect of grammatical gender was responsible for the different pattern of findings. The predictions from the connectionist simulations were supported by the results from an artificial language-learning task. The results from this work demonstrate how connectionist networks can be used to identify the differences between languages that affect categorization. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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