4. In combinations such as MFM, the first letter indicates the sex of the head, the second letter – the sex of the attractor, the third (if there is) the sex of the predicate. A. L. Beatty-Marténez, Bruni, M., Navarro-Torres, C.A., Togato, G. and Dussias, P. E. (2018a). Language and experience factors show fundamental differences in the grammatical treatment of gender. Poster presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. New Orleans, LA. However, it turns out that these are relatively insignificant characteristics compared to a typical language with a complete grammatical sex.
English names are generally not considered gender classes, as are French, German or Russian names. There is no gender agreement in English between the subtantifs and their modifiers (articles, other determinants or adjectives, with the occasional exception of blond/blond, spelling convention borrowed from French). Indeed, the gender agreement applies only to pronouns and the choice of pronoun is determined on the basis of semantics (perceived qualities of the thing cited) and not on a conventional assignment of certain names to certain sexes. As a result, we accept the second scenario in which relevant features are called at some point during the bypass, rather than predicted and then re-verified. We then expect some differences between production and understanding. Indeed, in the second production scenario, it is not as if we are looking for an NP with a certain number or a certain sexual characteristic. On the contrary, we look for the values of numbers and sexual characteristics in the theme NP. These features should belong to the head of this NP, but we are sometimes attentive to the characteristics of other names. We believe that the function index plays a role in this process, and this is what causes different results in our production and our comprehension experiences.
We assumed that gender agreement involves a related morphology. That`s the canonical situation. Because of this criterion, gender systems are generally not found in insulating languages. However, there may be incidents. The Austro-Asian language Khasi, for example, has sex-sensitive particles that act as personal articles and pronouns.
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