This study highlights the complexity of French grammatical gender as a lexical property at the interface of morpho-phonology and the lexicon. French native speakers (n = 168) completed a gender assignment task with written stimuli illustrating common versus uncommon nouns, vowel-initial versus consonant-initial nouns, compounds and grammatical homonyms; they also indicated the strategies they used to assign a gender to stimuli. The findings showed strong lexical and gender effects suggesting that grammatical gender must be acquired for individual lexical items as morpho-phonological cues alone are unreliable and vary greatly.

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法语的语法性别分配：消除以母语为母语的神话

这项研究强调了法语语法性别的复杂性，它是形态音韵学和词典接口处的词汇属性。以法语为母语的人 (n = 168) 完成了一项性别分配任务，通过书面刺激说明常见名词与不常见名词、元音声母与辅音声母名词、复合词和语法同音异义词；他们还指出了他们用来为刺激分配性别的策略。研究结果显示出强烈的词汇和性别影响，这表明必须为个别词汇项目获得语法性别，因为单独的形态语音线索是不可靠的并且变化很大。