The Influence of Sex Information on Gender Word Processing
Autor: | Alba Casado, Alfonso Palma, Daniela Paolieri |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Předmět: |
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Linguistics and Language Word processing Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Semantics 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Psycholinguistics 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Sex Factors Lexical decision task Selection (linguistics) Reaction Time Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Psychology Language Grammatical gender Salience (language) 05 social sciences Gender Identity Speech Perception Female Word Processing Psychology Priming (psychology) 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
Zdroj: | Journal of psycholinguistic research. 47(3) |
ISSN: | 1573-6555 |
Popis: | Three different tasks (word repetition, lexical decision, and gender decision) were designed to explore the impact of the sex clues (sex of the speaker, sex of the addressee) and the type of gender (semantic, arbitrary) on the processing of isolated Spanish gendered words. The findings showed that the grammatical gender feature was accessed when no mandatory attentional focus was required. In addition, the results indicated that the participants organize information according to their own sex role, which provides more salience to the words that match in grammatical gender with their own sex role representation, even when the gender assignment is arbitrary. Finally, the sex of the speaker biased the lexical access and the grammatical gender selection, serving as a semantic prime when the two dimensions have a congruent relationship. Furthermore, the masculine form serves as the generic gender representing both male and female figures. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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