The Truth about Grammatical Gender

This is my first true video essay. Go easy on me I’m only just figuring out how to edit. Bonus points to anyone who’s able to identify all the clips I used. If any of my translations are off please let me know so I can correct them. Thumbnail illustration by Carolina Búzio (). *Timestamps* 0:00 - intro to keys & bridges 1:25 - the actual research 3:19 - odd noun & gender pairings 5:01 - the phonetics of grammatical gender 6:13 - languages do not gender concepts 6:39 - how native speakers think 8:42 - grammatical gender is not gender 9:30 - similarity between nouns 11:39 - grammatical gender & gender identity 12:20 - opposing research 13:23 - correlation doesn’t equal causation 14:21 - how we choose to voice a character 15:19 - what are masculine nouns? 16:06 - learning gumbuzi 17:25 - is justice a man or a woman? 19:58 - object gender in english 20:44 - boroditsky (2000) 21:25 - conclusion & final remarks *Tiktok:* @yuvaltheterrible *Twitch:* *Twitter:* *Boroditsky’s studies:* “Sex, Syntax and Semantics“ (2003), Boroditsky, Schmidt & Philips. “Sex, Syntax and Semantics“ (2000), Boroditsky & Schmidt. “Can Quirks of Grammatical Gender Affect the Way We Think? Grammatical Gender and Object Concepts“ (2003), Boroditsky & Philips. “Grammar in Art“ (2011), Boroditsky & Segel. *Opposing Research:* “Key is a llave is a Schlüssel: A failure to replicate an experiment from Boroditsky et al. 2003“ (2014), Mickan, Schiefe & Stefanowitsch. “Does Grammatical Gender Influence Perception? A Study of Polish and French Speakers“ (2017), Haertlé. “Re-evaluating evidence for linguistic relativity: Reply to Boroditsky (2001)“ (2006), January & Kako. “Bridges, gender, and Benjamin Lee Whorf“ (2018), Scientific Gems“ *Additional Research:* “Language environment and gender identity attainment“ (1982), Guiroa, Hallahmi, Fried & Yoder.“ “On Linguistic Aspects of Translation“ Jakobson (1959) *Russian days of the week study mentioned on pg. 237* ~eckert/PDF/... *Language Log:* “Boroditsky on Whorfian navigation and blame” (2010), Lieberman “Never mind the conclusions, what’s the evidence?” (2010), Lieberman *article mentioned in above post* *Subreddits Showcased:*