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Gauging the Impact of Gender Grammaticization in Different Languages: Application of a Linguistic-Visual Paradigm.

  • Sato S Department of Psychology, University of FribourgFribourg, Switzerland; Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster UniversityLancaster, UK.
  • Gygax PM Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg Fribourg, Switzerland.
  • Gabriel U Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway.
  • 2016-03-05
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  • Frontiers in psychology. - 2016
bilingualism
gender representation
gender stereotypes
generic masculine
grammatical gender
thinking-for-speaking hypothesis
English Employing a linguistic-visual paradigm, we investigated whether the grammaticization of gender information impacts readers' gender representations. French and German were taken as comparative languages, taking into account the male gender bias associated to both languages, as well as the comparative gender biases associated to their plural determiners (French: les [generic] vs. German: die [morphologically feminine]). Bilingual speakers of French and German had to judge whether a pair of facial images representing two men or a man and a woman could represent a gender stereotypical role noun prime (e.g., nurses). The prime was presented in the masculine plural form with or without a plural determiner. Results indicated that the overt grammaticization of the male gender in the masculine form dominated the representation of the role nouns (though interpretable as generic). However, the effect of the determiner was not found, indicating that only gender information associated to a human reference role noun had impacted readers' representations. The results, discussed in the framework of the thinking-for-speaking hypothesis, demonstrated that linguistic-visual paradigms are well-suited to gauge the impact of both stereotype information and grammaticization when processing role nouns.
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