If you’ve ever studied a foreign language, you know that in many languages, nouns —even inanimate objects— have grammatical gender. Russian, French, Spanish, and Arabic are all examples of such ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Many languages give gender to their nouns, but not English, though that was not always the case. Until about the 1200s, English ...
This morning, NPR reported on an exciting new grammar and gender study by Stanford psychologist Lera Boroditsky. Boroditsky argues that languages which assign masculine and feminine genders to ...
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