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Sayaka Sato¹, Panos Athanasopoulos¹

¹Lancaster University, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YL, UK.

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Keywords:

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Bilingualism Research

Background:

Grammatical gender systems vary across languages.
The influence of grammatical gender on non-linguistic cognition is an active area of research.
Bilinguals possess multiple linguistic systems that can potentially interact.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how grammatical gender influences perceptual judgments in bilingual individuals.
To determine whether conceptual gender or grammatical gender has a stronger effect on face perception.
To explore the automaticity of grammatical gender retrieval in bilinguals.

Main Methods:

Two experiments were conducted with French-English bilinguals and native English monolinguals.
Participants viewed object images varying in conceptual and grammatical gender.
A subsequent face decision task assessed the influence of object primes on judgment.

Main Results:

Conceptual gender information was utilized when strategically advantageous (Experiment 1).
Grammatical gender exerted a persistent and robust influence on judgments, even when not task-relevant (Experiment 2).
Bilinguals showed automatic retrieval of grammatical gender information.

Conclusions:

Grammatical gender information is automatically retrieved and influences perceptual judgments in bilinguals.
Grammar provides a robust pathway for accessing prior knowledge, irrespective of task demands.
This suggests that linguistic structures can shape non-linguistic cognition automatically.