Le ou La? The Gender of French Nouns 1853592684
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English Pages x+86 [52] Year 1995
Table of contents :
Contents (p. 5)
Foreword (p. vii)
Index of Terms (p. ix)
Introduction (p. 1)
Testing Your Gender Assignment Competence (p. 5)
Learning From Children About Learning Genders (p. 7)
The Great Divide: Semantic Versus Grammatical Gender (p. 10)
The Link Between Gender and Phonetic Word Ending (p. 14)
Meaning and the Gender of Inanimate Nouns (p. 26)
The Role of Word Structure in Determining Gender (p. 33)
Biological or Sociological Gender: The Gender of Animate Nouns (p. 46)
Gender Makes the Difference: Distinguishing Between Homophones (p. 52)
Seeing How the Network Operates (p. 58)
In Conclusion (p. 61)
A List of Frequent Nouns With Their Genders (p. 66)
Bibliography (p. 86)
