Re: Gender in language

Nathan Sanders wrote:

[snip]

Just because some linguistic feature (or more appropriately, the
*potential* for that feature) is "hard-wired" doesn't mean every
language must have that feature.

Which makes me wonder why it is believed to be "hard-wired" and not,
instead, a learned feature.

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