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Please advise me if there are better research methods; I only searched for Related Articles on Google Scholar to the only 2 recent papers that I know:

Cited Articles of French gender assignment revisited (2005) by Don Nelson.

Cited Articles of Predictability in French gender attribution: A corpus analysis (2005) by Roy Lyster.

Because Lyster analysed only 'A corpus of 9,961 nouns appearing in Le Robert Junior Illustré', I hope that analysing a broader corpus (if anyone has done one) would ameliorate the results.

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  • Simple rule: if the word in Latin is masculine or neutral, then the corresponding word in French will be masculine; if the word in Latin is feminine, then the corresponding word in French will be feminine.
    – Kenny Lau
    Jul 26, 2016 at 2:30
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    @KennyLau mer < mare? dent < dēns? Not that simple.
    – jogloran
    Jul 26, 2016 at 4:22
  • Well, for most of the time. Rules always come with exceptions, don't they.
    – Kenny Lau
    Jul 26, 2016 at 4:25
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    I don't think that this question is off-topic: Gender prediction looks like a task for computational linguistics.
    – Sir Cornflakes
    Jul 26, 2016 at 9:03
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    @KennyLau French also comprises Word Forms of Germanic or Frankish origin though, and not only Latinate.
    – user5306
    Jul 26, 2016 at 17:32

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