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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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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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.
Helen de Hoop +2 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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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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The processing of the Dutch masculine generic zijn ‘his’ across stereotype contexts: An eye-tracking study [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Language users often infer a person's gender when it is not explicitly mentioned. This information is included in the mental model of the described situation, giving rise to expectations regarding the continuation of the discourse. Such gender inferences
Anita Eerland, Theresa Redl
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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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 In French, and other gender marked languages, there are two ways to interpret a grammatical masculine form when used to refer to social roles or occupations [e.g., les magiciens (the magiciansmasculine)].
Ute Gabriel, Pascal Gygax
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Glossa, 2022 There is empirical evidence in different languages on how the computation of gender morphology during psycholinguistic processing affects the construction of sex-generic representations. However, there are few experimental studies in Spanish and there is
Gabriela Mariel Zunino +1 more
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