This article investigates whether human masculine plural noun phrases (NPs) in Spanish,
which can be interpreted with an exclusively masculine or a mixed-gender meaning, are a …

ABSTRACT English speakers use vertical language to talk about power, such as when
speaking of people being “at the bottom of the social hierarchy” or “rising to the top.” …

An eye-tracking experiment was conducted with speakers of Dutch (N= 84, 36 male), a
language that falls between grammatical and natural-gender languages. We tested whether …

Two experiments tested whether the Dutch possessive pronoun zijn 'his' gives rise to a
gender inference and thus causes a male bias when used generically in sentences such as …

" Eine erfrischend kalte Dusche für die moralisch überhitzten Diskurse der vergangenen
Jahre: eine wohltuende, zur allgemeinen Abrüstung einladende Ernüchterung"(Aus der Jury …

Presentamos una investigación respecto del procesamiento sintáctico-oracional mediante
técnicas de medición de movimientos oculares que se enmarca en torno al debate de los …

Masculine forms are often used when reference to people in general is made. This
phenomenon is, for example, apparent in the proverb To each his own, which applies to …

Abstract In Polish, it is obligatory to mark feminine or masculine grammatical gender on
second-person singular past tense verbs (eg, Dostałaś list 'You received-F a letter'). When …

For a long time, Swedish only had two third-person singular pronouns: hon ['she'] and han
['he']. Following several publications using the gender-neutral pronoun hen to refer to its …

A self-paced reading experiment tested if a generically-used masculine personal pronoun
leads to a male bias in online processing. We presented Dutch native speakers (N= 95, 47 …