This study aims to map the gender politics of contemporary Romanian street naming. Hodonyms mirror mentalities and ideas prevailing in a society. Urban microtoponimy is an androcentric one, as public life has belonged, throughout history, almost exclusively men. Women emerged from private domestic spheres only nineteenth century, this justifies, way, much smaller number names that are claimed b...

Spoken words carry linguistic and indexical information to listeners. Abstractionist models of spoken word recognition suggest that indexical information is stripped away in a process called normalization to allow processing of the linguistic message to proceed. In contrast, exemplar models of the lexicon suggest that indexical information is retained in memory, and influences the process of sp...

Two experiments are described concerning voice characteristics of male-to-female transsexuals. In the speech production experiment isolated words and longer utterances were realized in a male and female mode by subjects. Speech samples were analyzed as to a number of acoustic parameters and compared intraindividually. It appeared that, in spite of anatomical constraints, subjects were able to r...

Jakobson (1959) reports: "The Russian painter Repin was baffled as to why Sin had been depicted as a woman by German artists: he did not realize that 'sin' is feminine in German (die Sünde), but masculine in Russian (rpex)." Does the grammatical gender of nouns in an artist's native language indeed predict the gender of personifications in art? In this paper we analyzed works in the ARTstor dat...

In general, female stereotypes shape the advertising industry, and some recent studies suggest that other types of non-stereotype gender role representations in can have many positive effects. The purpose this study is to investigate women modern days advertising. Regardless gender, there are effects on brand-related social impact non-stereotypic professional respondents. These results also sho...

Cell death is a nearly ubiquitous feature of the developing nervous system, and differential death in males and females contributes to several well studied sex differences in neuron number. Nonetheless, the functional importance of neuronal cell death has been subjected to few direct tests. Bax, a pro-apoptotic protein, is required for cell death in many neural regions. Deletion of the Bax gene...