  The relation between language and thought has occupied linguists for at least
a century. Neo-Whorfianism, a weak version of the controversial Sapir-Whorf
hypothesis, holds that our thoughts are subtly influenced by the grammatical
structures of our native language. One area of investigation in this vein
focuses on how the grammatical gender of nouns affects the way we perceive the
corresponding objects. For instance, does the fact that key is masculine in
German (der Schl\"ussel), but feminine in Spanish (la llave) change the
speakers' views of those objects? Psycholinguistic evidence presented by
Boroditsky et al. (2003, {\S}4) suggested the answer might be yes: When asked
to produce adjectives that best described a key, German and Spanish speakers
named more stereotypically masculine and feminine ones, respectively. However,
recent attempts to replicate those experiments have failed (Mickan et al.,
2014). In this work, we offer a computational analogue of Boroditsky et al.
(2003, {\S}4)'s experimental design on 9 languages, finding evidence against
neo-Whorfianism.
