Why do some languages use gendered nouns? - eviltoast

Why do some languages use gendered nouns? It seems to just add more complexity for no benefit.

  • quilan@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I don’t have the source with me, but I recall a paper about listening to various languages under different signal/ noise thresholds. If I recall correctly, languages like German that have multiple declensions were about to better able to parse noisy samples because of the redundant information. Sorry for not having the source off hand though.