Previous research has shown that Dutch pronominal gender is in a process of resemanticization: Highly individuated nouns are increasingly referred to with masculine and feminine pronouns, and lowly individuated ones with the neuter pronoun het/’t ‘it’, irrespective of the grammatical gender of the noun (Audring 2009). The process is commonly attributed to the loss of adnominal gender agreement, which is increasingly blurring distinctions between masculine and feminine nouns and, therefore, requires speakers to resort to semantic default strategies (De Vogelaer & De Sutter 2011). Several factors have been identified that influence the choice of semantic vis-à-vis lexical agreement, both linguistic and social. This article seeks to weigh the importance of both structural and social factors in pronominal gender agreement in Belgian Dutch, using the Belgian part of the Spoken Dutch Corpus. A multivariate statistical analysis reveals that most effects are structural, including noun semantics and the syntactic function of the antecedent and the pronoun, as well as the pragmatic status of the antecedent. The most important social factor is speech register. We argue that these effects support a psycholinguistic account in which resemanticization is seen as a change from below, caused by hampered lexical access to noun gender.

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权衡荷兰代词语义一致的心理语言学和社会因素

先前的研究表明，荷兰代词性别正处于重新语义化的过程中：高度个体化的名词越来越多地用男性和女性代词来指代，而个体化程度低的名词则用中性代词来指代不'it'，与名词的语法性别无关（Audring 2009）。该过程通常归因于名词性性别一致性的丧失，这使得男性和女性名词之间的区别越来越模糊，因此，要求说话者诉诸语义默认策略（De Vogelaer & De Sutter 2011）。已经确定了几个影响语义和词汇一致性选择的因素，包括语言和社会。本文试图使用荷兰语语料库的比利时语部分来衡量结构和社会因素在比利时荷兰语中代词性别认同中的重要性。多元统计分析表明，大多数影响是结构性的，包括名词语义和先行词和代词的句法功能，以及前身的语用地位。最重要的社会因素是语域。我们认为，这些影响支持一种心理语言学解释，在这种解释中，再语义化被视为自下而上的变化，这是由于对名词性别的词汇访问受到阻碍而引起的。