摘要：
We used a non-linguistic gender attribution task to determine how
French and Spanish grammatical gender affects bilinguals’
conceptual gender. French-English and Spanish-English bilingual,
as well as English monolingual adults were asked to assign a male
or female voice to 32 color drawings depicting people, animals,
and common objects. French- English and Spanish-English bilinguals
classified items according to French and Spanish grammatical gender
respectively. This effect was replicated for French-English bilinguals
on those items whose grammatical gender was opposite in French and
Spanish. Unexpectedly, Spanish gender similarly affected classifications
by Spanish-English and English- Spanish bilinguals, as well as English
monolinguals. We discuss how grammatical gender, possible covariates,
and the order of L1 and L2 acquisition, affect conceptual gender
as well as implications for decision making.
