Effects of the Generic Masculine and Its Alternatives in Germanophone Countries: A Multi-Lab Replication and Extension of Stahlberg, Sczesny, and Braun (2001) [PDF]
International Review of Social PsychologyIn languages such as German, French, or Hindi, plural forms of job occupations and societal roles are often in a generic-masculine form instead of a gender-inclusive form.
Hilmar Brohmer +20 more
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Neutral is not fair enough: testing the efficiency of different language gender-fair strategies [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 In many languages with grammatical gender, the use of masculine forms as a generic reference has been associated with a bias favoring masculine-specific representations.
Elsa Spinelli +2 more
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Masculine generic pronouns as a gender cue in generic statements [PDF]
Discourse Processes, 2022 An eye-tracking experiment was conducted with speakers of Dutch (N=84, 36 male), a language that falls in between grammatical and natural gender languages. We tested whether a masculine generic pronoun causes a male bias when used in generic statements, that is, in the absence of a specific referent.
Theresa Redl +4 more
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The effects of grammatical gender on the processing of occupational role names in Slovene: An event-related potential study [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The event-related potential method has proven to be a useful tool for studying the effects of gender information in language. Studies have shown that mismatch between the antecedent and the following referent triggers two ERP components, N400 and P600 ...
Jasna Mikić Ljubi +5 more
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Das generische Maskulinum im Deutschen. Ein historischer Spaziergang durch die deutsche Grammatikschreibung von der Renaissance bis zur Postmoderne [PDF]
Linguistik Online, 2002 The concern of the present article is the evolution of the "generic masculine" in German as it is reflected in the grammars of the German language from the 16th to the 20th centuries.
Ursula Doleschal
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No genericity in sight: An exploration of the semantics of masculine generics in German
Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2023 Findings of previous behavioural studies suggest that the semantic nature of what is known as the ‘masculine generic’ in Modern Standard German is indeed not generic but biased towards a masculine reading.
Dominic Schmitz +2 more
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Registered report protocol: Perceptual effects of Arabic grammatical gender on occupational expectations in a gamified speech production task. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 The default use of masculine morphology to refer to all genders in Arabic-speaking countries is largely unquestioned and widely accepted. However, research on masculine generic morphology in other gender-marked languages has shown that this can create an
Farida Soliman +2 more
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Exploring the nature of the gender-congruency effect: implicit gender activation and social bias [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The aim of the study was to explore the nature of the gender-congruency effect, characterized by a facilitation on the processing of congruent words in grammatical gender.
Alba Casado +6 more
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Is Spanish Becoming more Gender Fair? A Historical Perspective on the Interpretation of Gender-specific and Gender-neutral Expressions [PDF]
Linguistik Online, 2013 During the last three decades, many recommendations for a gender fair Spanish language have been proposed, but, generally speaking, it has been the substitution of the so-called 'masculine generic' (e.g.
Uwe Kjær Nissen
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De Terminator a Terminatrix: representaciones y estereotipos de género [PDF]
Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat, 2005 This article concentrates on how the Terminator series has shifted its focus from the opposition between man and machine to that between man and woman, perpetuating the binary models of representation. It is the contention of this essay that although the
Noemi Novell
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