Do gender stereotypes bias the processing of morphological innovations? The case of gender-inclusive language in Spanish

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Stetie, Noelia Ayelen; Zunino, Gabriela Mariel
Año de publicación
2024
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Classical grammatical studies in Spanish only consider binary gender and claim that gender assignment is an arbitrary process. However, psycholinguistic evidence suggests that gender morphology, lexical semantics, and gender stereotypes condition language processing. Recently, gender-inclusive language proposals have proliferated in several languages, and in Spanish, the use of the nonbinary morphological variant [-e] has spread considerably. This article presents the results of a self-paced reading task that evaluated the influence of gender stereotypes (role names with semantic male or female bias) on the processing of this morphological innovation. There was a semantic bias effect in the first spillover word, but there were no statistically significant differences for noun phrase, wrap-up region, and total sentence reading times. The results showed that gender stereotype effect occurs relatively early and at the local level. Moreover, nonbinary morphological innovations may be specializing in the representation of mixed groups of people.
Fil: Stetie, Noelia Ayelen. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Lingüística; Argentina
Fil: Zunino, Gabriela Mariel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Lingüística; Argentina
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GENDER-INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE
NONBINARY LANGUAGE
MORPHOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
GENDER STEREOTYPES
LANGUAGE PROCESSING
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Do gender stereotypes bias the processing of morphological innovations? The case of gender-inclusive language in Spanish
title Do gender stereotypes bias the processing of morphological innovations? The case of gender-inclusive language in Spanish
spellingShingle Do gender stereotypes bias the processing of morphological innovations? The case of gender-inclusive language in Spanish
Stetie, Noelia Ayelen
GENDER-INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE
NONBINARY LANGUAGE
MORPHOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
GENDER STEREOTYPES
LANGUAGE PROCESSING
title_short Do gender stereotypes bias the processing of morphological innovations? The case of gender-inclusive language in Spanish
title_full Do gender stereotypes bias the processing of morphological innovations? The case of gender-inclusive language in Spanish
title_fullStr Do gender stereotypes bias the processing of morphological innovations? The case of gender-inclusive language in Spanish
title_full_unstemmed Do gender stereotypes bias the processing of morphological innovations? The case of gender-inclusive language in Spanish
title_sort Do gender stereotypes bias the processing of morphological innovations? The case of gender-inclusive language in Spanish
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Stetie, Noelia Ayelen
Zunino, Gabriela Mariel
author Stetie, Noelia Ayelen
author_facet Stetie, Noelia Ayelen
Zunino, Gabriela Mariel
author_role author
author2 Zunino, Gabriela Mariel
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv GENDER-INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE
NONBINARY LANGUAGE
MORPHOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
GENDER STEREOTYPES
LANGUAGE PROCESSING
topic GENDER-INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE
NONBINARY LANGUAGE
MORPHOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
GENDER STEREOTYPES
LANGUAGE PROCESSING
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.2
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Classical grammatical studies in Spanish only consider binary gender and claim that gender assignment is an arbitrary process. However, psycholinguistic evidence suggests that gender morphology, lexical semantics, and gender stereotypes condition language processing. Recently, gender-inclusive language proposals have proliferated in several languages, and in Spanish, the use of the nonbinary morphological variant [-e] has spread considerably. This article presents the results of a self-paced reading task that evaluated the influence of gender stereotypes (role names with semantic male or female bias) on the processing of this morphological innovation. There was a semantic bias effect in the first spillover word, but there were no statistically significant differences for noun phrase, wrap-up region, and total sentence reading times. The results showed that gender stereotype effect occurs relatively early and at the local level. Moreover, nonbinary morphological innovations may be specializing in the representation of mixed groups of people.
Fil: Stetie, Noelia Ayelen. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Lingüística; Argentina
Fil: Zunino, Gabriela Mariel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Lingüística; Argentina
description Classical grammatical studies in Spanish only consider binary gender and claim that gender assignment is an arbitrary process. However, psycholinguistic evidence suggests that gender morphology, lexical semantics, and gender stereotypes condition language processing. Recently, gender-inclusive language proposals have proliferated in several languages, and in Spanish, the use of the nonbinary morphological variant [-e] has spread considerably. This article presents the results of a self-paced reading task that evaluated the influence of gender stereotypes (role names with semantic male or female bias) on the processing of this morphological innovation. There was a semantic bias effect in the first spillover word, but there were no statistically significant differences for noun phrase, wrap-up region, and total sentence reading times. The results showed that gender stereotype effect occurs relatively early and at the local level. Moreover, nonbinary morphological innovations may be specializing in the representation of mixed groups of people.
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