Exploring the Onset of a Male-Biased Interpretation of Masculine Generics Among French Speaking Kindergarten Children [PDF]
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)].
Pascal Mark Gygax +4 more
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A Language Index of Grammatical Gender Dimensions to Study the Impact of Grammatical Gender on the Way We Perceive Women and Men [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Psycholinguistic investigations of the way readers and speakers perceive gender have shown several biases associated with how gender is linguistically realized in language.
Pascal Mark Gygax +7 more
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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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The Influence of the Gender Asterisk (“Gendersternchen”) on Comprehensibility and Interest [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Recently, the gender asterisk (“Gendersternchen”) has become more widespread in grammatical gender languages in order to represent all genders. Such gender-fair language is intended to help better address women and other genders and make their interests ...
Marcus C. G. Friedrich +3 more
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How to make a difference: the impact of gender-fair language on text comprehensibility amongst adults with and without an academic background [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionThe proliferation of gender-fair language as a medium of communication that represents all genders can be considered as an exciting development in today's rapidly changing world.
Laura Mathilde Pabst, Marlene Kollmayer
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The effect of language on performance: do gendered languages fail women in maths? [PDF]
npj Science of Learning, 2021 Research suggests that gendered languages are associated with gender inequality. However, as languages are embedded in cultures, evidence for causal effects are harder to provide. We contribute to this ongoing debate by exploring the relationship between
Tamar Kricheli-Katz, Tali Regev
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On Sexism in Language and Language Change – The Case of Peninsular Spanish [PDF]
Linguistik Online, 2011 The Spanish language has been described as a sexist language due to the peculiar characteris-tics of its gender morphology. It is indicated by the o ('masculine') and a ('feminine') gender morphemes which generally represent male and female respectively.
Benedicta Adokarley Lomotey
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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
Theresa Redl +2 more
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Breaking Away From the Male Stereotype of a Specialist: Gendered Language Affects Performance in a Thinking Task [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This experimental online-survey study investigated if different written language forms in German have an effect on male bias in thinking. We used answers to the specialist riddle as an indicator for male bias in mental representations of expertise.
Marlene Kollmayer +3 more
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The social perception of heroes and murderers: Effects of gender-inclusive language in media reports [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 The way media depict women and men can reinforce or diminish gender stereotyping. Which part does language play in this context? Are roles perceived as more gender-balanced when feminine role nouns are used in addition to masculine ones?
Karolina eHansen +2 more
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