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

La représentation mentale du genre pendant la lecture : état actuel de la recherche et directions futures.

Gygax, Pascal ; Sarrasin, Orianne ; Lévy, Arik ; Sato, Sayaka ; Gabriel, Ute

Dans cet article, nous présentons les recherches, relativement récentes, sur l’intégration du genre dans la représentation mentale d’une lectrice ou d’un lecteur, en mettant l’accent sur leurs controverses ainsi que sur les pistes encore peu (ou pas) explorées. Nous espérons ainsi susciter l’intérêt de la communauté francophone sur ce sujet, jusqu’ici relativement discrète....

Université de Fribourg

The masculine form and its competing interpretations in French : When linking grammatically masculine role names to female referents is difficult

Gygax, Pascal ; Gabriel, Ute ; Lévy, Arik ; Pool, Eva ; Grivel, Marjorie ; Pedrazzini, Elena

Using a word association paradigm we examined the extent to which readers can overcome the specific interpretation of the grammatical masculine form in French when instructed to embrace its generic meaning. In two experiments participants were to decide whether a person introduced by a kinship term (e.g. aunt) could be part of a group represented by a role name (e.g. musicians). After the...

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