Abstract. In many languages masculine nouns and pronouns can be interpreted to refer to both male and female referents. However, even when the authors expressly point out that masculine forms are being used to refer to both women and men, ...
“For reasons of intelligibility ...”. How masculine generics and alternative forms affect the cognitive processing of a textAbstract. It is frequently argued that gender-fair language impairs processing of textual information. To test this assumption, 86 ...
Representing masculine generics: A theoretical integration of empirical findingsAbstract. The present paper aims at integrating results from several studies on the representation of masculine generics in German into a theoretical framework. Although ...