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natural gender

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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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Fortunately, thanks to today's advances in research and medicine in this area, we can now predetermine the sex of the baby in many ways, with natural gender selection being the safest and most effective.
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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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But what if there were natural gender selection methods that taught you how to conceive a baby boy?
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