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 (https://www.carolinabuzio.com/).
*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
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*Boroditsky's studies:*
"Sex, Syntax and Semantics" (2003), Boroditsky, Schmidt & Philips.
http://lera.ucsd.edu/papers/gender.pdf
"Sex, Syntax and Semantics" (2000), Boroditsky & Schmidt.
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0jt9w8zf
"Can Quirks of Grammatical Gender Affect the Way We Think? Grammatical Gender and Object Concepts" (2003), Boroditsky & Philips.
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/31t455gf
"Grammar in Art" (2011), Boroditsky & Segel.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3153848/
*Opposing Research:*
"Key is a llave is a Schlüssel: A failure to replicate an experiment from Boroditsky et al. 2003" (2014), Mickan, Schiefe & Stefanowitsch.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271523928_Key_is_a_llave_is_a_Schlussel_A_failure_to_replicate_an_experiment_from_Boroditsky_et_al_2003
"Does Grammatical Gender Influence Perception? A Study of Polish and French Speakers" (2017), Haertlé.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322550500_Does_Grammatical_Gender_Influence_Perception_A_Study_of_Polish_and_French_Speakers#:~:text=This%20is%20the%20first%20Polish,objects%20as%20masculine%20or%20feminine.
"Re-evaluating evidence for linguistic relativity: Reply to Boroditsky (2001)" (2006), January & Kako.
https://ruccs.rutgers.edu/images/personal-karin-stromswold/publications/January2007.pdf
"Bridges, gender, and Benjamin Lee Whorf" (2018), Scientific Gems.
https://scientificgems.wordpress.com/2018/06/06/bridges-gender-and-benjamin-lee-whorf/
*Additional Research:*
"Language environment and gender identity attainment" (1982), Guiroa, Hallahmi, Fried & Yoder.
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/98322/j.1467-1770.1982.tb00973.x.pdf
"On Linguistic Aspects of Translation" (1959) Jakobson. Russian days of the week study mentioned on pg. 237
https://web.stanford.edu/~eckert/PDF/jakobson.pdf
*Language Log:*
“Boroditsky on Whorfian navigation and blame” (2010), Lieberman
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2487
“Never mind the conclusions, what’s the evidence?” (2010), Lieberman. article mentioned in above post
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2592
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https://www.reddit.com/r/hebrew/