In the Russian language, nouns are classified by gender and animacy, whereas in English, nouns are not. Using triad-sorts of names for biological and non-biological taxa, a comparison of results provided by native speakers of both languages reveals that cognitive categorizations of animate and inanimate nomenclatural forms differ significantly between speakers of Russian and American English. Speakers of American English appear to categorize names for living nouns more by phenotype than do Russians, who in turn appear to classify nouns more frequently on the basis of linguistic features such as gender. These results are believed to be pertinent to the elicitation and construction of folk ethnobiology taxonomies.

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语言对俄美民族生物学分类的影响

在俄语中，名词是按性别和生命来分类的，而在英语中，名词则不是。使用生物和非生物分类单元的三分类名称，对两种语言的母语使用者提供的结果进行比较后发现，俄语和美式英语使用者对有生命和无生命命名法的认知分类存在显着差异。与俄语相比，说英语的美国人似乎更倾向于按表型对活名词的名称进行分类，而俄语则倾向于根据性别等语言特征对名词进行更频繁的分类。这些结果被认为与民间民族生物学分类法的启发和构建有关。