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Some grammatical rules are more difficult than others: The case of the generic interpretation of the masculine

Gygax, Pascal ; Gabriel, Ute ; Sarrasin, Oriane ; Oakhill, Jane ; Garnham, Alan

In: European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2009, vol. 24, no. 2, p. 235-246

Gender representation in language and grammatical cues: When beauticians, musicians and mechanics remain men. Discourse Processes, 49, 481-500.

Garnham, Alan ; Gabriel, Ute ; Sarrasin, Oriane ; Gygax, Pascal ; Oakhill, Jane

Gygax et al. (2008) showed that readers form a mental representation of gender that is based on grammatical gender in French and German (i.e., masculine supposedly interpretable as a generic form), but based on stereotypical information in English. In the present study, a modification of their stimulus material was used to examine the additional potential influence of pronouns. Across the three...

Some grammatical rules are more difficult than others: The case of the generic interpretation of the masculine.

Gygax, Pascal ; Gabriel, Ute ; Sarrasin, Oriane ; Garnham, Alan ; Oakhill, Jane

In this paper we argue that the generic use of the masculine represents a grammatical rule that might be easy to learn but difficult to apply when understanding texts. This argument is substantiated by reviewing the relevant literature as well as the recent work conducted by the GREL Group (Gender Representation in Language) on the interaction between stereotypical and grammatical information in...