Vuksanović Jasmina, Bjekić Jovana, Radivojević Natalija
Department of Psychology, State University of Novi Pazar, Vuka Karadžića bb Street, 36300 , Novi Pazar, Republic of Serbia,
J Psycholinguist Res. 2015 Aug;44(4):383-97. doi: 10.1007/s10936-014-9293-7.
A body of research shows that grammatical gender, although an arbitrary category, is viewed as the system with its own meaning. However, the question remains to what extent does grammatical gender influence shaping our notions about objects when both verbal and visual information are available. Two experiments were conducted. The results obtained in Experiment 1 have shown that grammatical gender as a linguistic property of the pseudo-nouns used as names for musical instruments significantly affects people's representations about these instruments. The purpose of Experiment 2 was to examine how the representation of musical instruments will be shaped in the presence of both language and visual information. The results indicate that the co-existence of linguistic and visual information results in formation of concepts about selected instruments by all available information from both sources, thus suggesting that grammatical gender influences nonverbal concepts' forming, but has no privileged status in the matter.
大量研究表明，语法性属虽是一个任意性的类别，但被视为具有自身意义的系统。然而，当语言和视觉信息都存在时，语法性属在多大程度上影响我们对物体概念的形成，这一问题仍然存在。我们进行了两项实验。实验1的结果表明，用作乐器名称的伪名词的语法性属这一语言属性，会显著影响人们对这些乐器的认知。实验2的目的是研究在语言和视觉信息同时存在的情况下，乐器的认知会如何形成。结果表明，语言和视觉信息的共存会促使人们根据来自这两种来源的所有可用信息，形成关于所选乐器的概念，这表明语法性属会影响非语言概念的形成，但在这方面并没有特殊地位。
