Sex of Speaker Affects Listener Language Processing
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 14:50
in Psychology & Sociology
Grammar and syntax have been thought for decades to be automatic and untouchable by other brain processes and that everything else -- the sex of the speaker, their dialect, etc. -- is stripped away as our brains process the sound signal of a word and store it as an abstract form. A University of Kansas study suggests that even higher-level processes - in this case - grammar - are affected by information about the speaker.