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natural gender

n
(Linguistics) grammatical gender that reflects, as in English, the sex or animacy of the referent of a noun rather than the form or any other feature of the word
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Kramer (2015) proposes that gender features are located on n and come in two different types: interpretable, for natural gender, and uninterpretable, for arbitrary gender, as in (44).
Instead of addressing this core issue, rights activists are hell bent on changing the natural gender roles.
The global natural gender ratio at birth is 1.6 boys for every girl born.
It is unlikely that our results were driven by natural gender cues as only two of the items presented, doll and teddy bear, contained natural gender cues.
"Ideas about natural gender differences are often unintentionally taken into routine and everyday preschool situations.
Also looking at childhood noun gender accuracy, Seigneuric, Zagar, Meunier, and Spinelli (2007) found that while gender allocation is based upon (i) cues presented in word endings and (ii) semantic cues based on the natural gender of animate items, even very young children were able to allocate genders based on a word's final-letter grouping, a skill which increased with age.
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