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Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Arguments for morpholexical rules

Spencer, Andrew

In: Journal of Linguistics, 1988, vol. 24, no. 1, p. 1-29

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Die Frist ist um. Prädikativer Gebrauch von Präpositionen

Hentschel, Elke

In: Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik, 2005, vol. 33, no. 2-3, p. 268-288

Université de Fribourg

Fostering the generic interpretation of grammatically masculine forms: When my aunt could be one of the mechanics.

Lévy, Arik ; Gygax, Pascal ; Gabriel, Ute

The masculine plural form in French (e.g., musiciens [musicians]), as in other grammatical gender languages, though interpretable as a generic form (e.g., musicians are men and women), has been shown to more likely activate a specific interpretation (e.g., musicians are mainly men). In this study, we presented participants with female or male kinship – role noun word-pairs (e.g., oncle or tante...

Université de Fribourg

Gender Inferences: Grammatical features and their impact on the representation of gender in bilinguals.

Sato, Sayaka ; Gygax, Pascal ; Gabriel, Ute

We investigated the effects of grammatical and stereotypical gender information on the comprehension of human referent role nouns among bilinguals of a grammatical (French) and a natural gender language (English). In a sentence evaluation paradigm, participants judged the acceptability of a gender-specific sentence referring to either a group of women or men following a sentence containing the...