A cross cultural study of sex gender and social structure

Ethnology • Vol/Iss. 8 • Published In • Pages: 206-211 •
By Munroe, Robert L., Munroe, Ruth H.

Abstract

Authors hypothesize that grammatical sex gender may be related to social structural variables. Results support this hypothesis and suggest that the degree of sex bias in the social structure is associated with the relative frequency of masculine and feminine nouns in languages with sex gender.
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