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small-processing-cost · vergoossen-2020-hen-processing

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Claim ID
small-processing-cost
Assertion
An eye-tracking study found that readers spent 43 ms longer (about 0.86%) in the region after hen than after she or he, with no extra cost at the pronoun itself, and concluded that gender-neutral pronouns need not be avoided because of processing difficulty.
Quote
The results do not support that gender-neutral pronouns should be avoided because they are difficult to process.
Quote language
en
Locator
section: Abstract and results
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