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Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Inflectional morphology research often focuses on English, overlooking languages with complex systems like Serbian.
  • Standard theories posit grammatical gender as an abstract syntactic feature, separate from semantics and phonology.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the representation of grammatical gender in Serbian.
  • To challenge the traditional view of gender as a purely abstract syntactic feature.

Main Methods:

  • Corpus analyses of the Serbian language.
  • Development of computational models to analyze gender representation.

Main Results:

  • Grammatical gender in Serbian is correlated with semantic and phonological information.
  • Findings align with cross-linguistic studies on gender representation.

Conclusions:

  • Gender representations emerge during the process of learning to map messages to phonological forms.
  • The study has implications for understanding models of speech production and language acquisition.