Je Alarme! To Canadian Kids, Cows Are Boys And Cats Are Girls
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 14:50
in Psychology & Sociology
A recent study by University of Alberta researchers Elena Nicoladis and Cassandra Foursha-Stevenson in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology wanted to see whether speaking French (being bilingual) influenced how children assigned gender to objects. It yielded some interesting observations, like that in the unilingual crowd, more cows are boys and cats are girls. read more