What Lera Boroditsky has said about Gender-neutral pronouns

1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 9, 2026

Lera Boroditsky, Cognitive scientist and professor at the University of California, San Diego, has been quoted on Gender-neutral pronouns once in 1 episode of TED Radio Hour, most recently on October 9, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Boroditsky reports that Finnish-learning children take about an extra year to classify themselves by gender compared with Hebrew learners.

    “Finnish kids take about a year, an extra year before they can reliably classify themselves with boys or girls”

    TED Radio Hour: The shocking power of tiny things (Oct 9, 2026) · Listen from 28:53

Episodes

  • The shocking power of tiny things

    TED Radio Hour · Oct 9, 2026 · 50 min

    Manoush Zomorodi and TED speakers Anne Madden, Lera Boroditsky, YeYoon Kim and Bart Weetjens explore how tiny things—microbes, words, moments, rats—wield outsized power.

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