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Appendix
Questionnaire items
(+ number of informants to whom the relevant item was presented)
The Netherlands
traditional masculines - human: jongen ‘boy’ (19), Harry Potter (19); animate:
vlinder ‘butterfly’ (19), aap ‘monkey’ (19); count nouns: auto ‘car’ (19), stoel
‘chair’ (19); mass nouns: cola ‘coca-cola’ (19), wijn ‘wine’ (19)
traditional feminines - human: juf ‘miss’ (19), moeder ‘mother’ (19); animate: koe
‘cow’ (19), poes ‘cat’ (19); count nouns: tafel ‘table’ (19), mand ‘basket’ (19);
mass nouns: soep ‘soup’ (19), melk ‘milk’ (19)
traditional neuters - human: kind ‘child’ (19), meisje ‘girl’ (19); animate: beest
‘animal’ (19), paard ‘horse’ (19); count nouns: bed ‘bed’ (19), boek ‘book’ (19);
mass nouns: zand ‘sand’ (19), water ‘water’ (19)
Belgium
traditional masculines - human: jongen ‘boy’ (24), Samson (24), Harry Potter
(62), Piet Piraat ‘Pete the Pirate’ (62); animate: vlinder ‘butterfly’ (24), stier ‘bull’
(24), olifant ‘elephant’ (62), aap ‘monkey’ (62); count nouns: auto ‘car’ (110),
stoel ‘chair’ (24), fiets ‘bike’ (24), trommel ‘drum’ (24); mass nouns: cola ‘coca-
cola’ (62), pijn ‘ache’ (62)
NB. the noun auto ‘car’ appeared twice on one of the versions of the questionnaire
traditional feminines - human: juf ‘miss’ (24), mama ‘mother’ (24), Roodkapje
‘Little Red Riding Hood’ (24), Assepoester ‘Cinderella’ (62); animate: koe ‘cow’
(24), kat ‘cat’ (86); count nouns: tafel ‘table’ (24), mand ‘basket’ (62), kast ‘war-
drobe’ (62), zon ‘sun’ (62); mass nouns: soep ‘soup’ (24), melk ‘milk’ (62)
traditional neuters - human: kind ‘child’ (86); animate: beest ‘animal’ (24), lam
‘lamb’ (24), paard ‘horse’ (62); count nouns: bed ‘bed’ (24), feest ‘party’ (62);
mass nouns: zand ‘sand’ (62)