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Redl, Theresa; Szuba, Agnieszka; de Swart, Peter; Frank, Stefan L.; de Hoop, Helen – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
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 a masculine generic pronoun causes a male bias when used in generic statements--that is, in the absence of a specific referent. We tested two types of generic statements by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Form Classes (Languages), Cues
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Cozijn, Reinier; Noordman, Leo G. M.; Vonk, Wietske – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
The issue addressed in this study is whether propositional integration and world-knowledge inference can be distinguished as separate processes during the comprehension of Dutch "omdat" (because) sentences. "Propositional integration" refers to the process by which the reader establishes the type of relation between two clauses…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sentence Structure, Indo European Languages, Word Order