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DESCRIPTION:Non-binary gender forms (GFs) intend to allow mental represen
 tations of people with a gender identity outside the binary system. Howe
 ver\, quantitative research on non-binary GFs in Ger- man is rare. Our g
 oal is to test associations of readers when being presented with non-bin
 ary GFs using an asterisk (e.g. Lehrer*in – teacher).\n\nPrevious resear
 ch suggests sentence-picture matching tasks to be a useful method to tes
 t mental representations in readers. (cf. Stanfield and Zwaan 2001\, Zwa
 an et al. 2002) Within the debate on the interpretation of the generic m
 asculine in German\, Irmen and Köhncke (1996) use a sentence-picture mat
 ching task to test which mental representations are induced by the gener
 ic masculine person referent. Participants show longer reaction times (R
 Ts) when a masculine form is matched with a picture of a female person\;
  moreover\, acceptance rates are lower than when the masculine form is f
 ollowed by a picture of a person exhibiting masculine character- istics.
  Their results are in line with those presented later by Ferstl and Diet
 sche (2016) using a similar task. Both studies suggest difficulties in i
 nterpreting women referred to by a masculine noun and thus that the gene
 ric interpretation of the masculine in German is not automatic.\n\nIn or
 der to test which mental representations are induced by non-binary GFs u
 sing an asterisk\, we have developed a word-picture-matching task. Proba
 nds are presented with singular role nouns in either masculine\, feminin
 e or non-binary GF followed by a picture of a person in this role exhibi
 ting either male\, female or ambiguous characteristics. They have to dec
 ide intuitively whether the image matches the foregoing word. Words inst
 ead of sentences are used as stimuli in order to avoid influences of\, e
 .g.\, definiteness and numerus on the degree of referentiality. (cf. Kot
 thoff and Nübling 2018\, p. 92ff) We hypothesise that\, if non-binary GF
 s work as in- tended\, word forms will have a significant effect on RTs 
 as well as acceptance rates as sug- gested by previous research. In part
 icular\, we expect shorter RTs in response to ambiguous pictures as well
  as higher acceptance rates when preceded by a non-binary GF using an as
 terisk. Data collection is now in progress. Background\, methods\, and f
 irst results shall be discussed.
URL:https://talks.stuts.de/de/18staps/public/events/614
SUMMARY:A star amongst gender-fair forms?
ORGANIZER:18staps
LOCATION:18staps - Don Giovanni
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