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A Language Index of Grammatical Gender Dimensions to Study the Impact of Grammatical Gender on the Way We Perceive Women and Men

Gygax, Pascal ; Elmiger, Daniel ; Zufferey, Sandrine ; Garnham, Alan ; Sczesny, Sabine ; von Stockhausen, Lisa ; Braun, Friederike ; Oakhill, Jane

In: Frontiers in Psychology, 2019, vol. 10, no. 1604, p. 1-6

Psycholinguistic investigations of the way readers and speakers perceive gender have shown several biases associated with how gender is linguistically realized in language. Although such variations across languages offer interesting grounds for legitimate cross- linguistic comparisons, pertinent characteristics of grammatical systems – especially in terms of their gender asymmetries –...

Université de Fribourg

Norms on the gender perception of role nouns in Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Slovak.

Misersky, Julia ; Gygax, Pascal ; Canal, Paolo ; Gabriel, Ute ; Garnham, Alan ; Braun, Friederike ; Chiarini, Tania ; Englund, Kjellrun ; Hanulikova, Adriana ; Öttl, Anton ; Valdrova, Jana ; Von Stockhausen, Lisa ; Sczesny, Sabine

We collected norms on the gender stereotypicality of an extensive list of role nouns in Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Slovak to be used as a basis for the selection of stimulus material in future studies. We present a web-based tool (https://www.unifr.ch/lcg/) that we developed to collect these norms and that we expect to be useful for other researchers as well. In...