CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
Are New Gender-Neutral Pronouns Difficult to Process in Reading? The Case of Hen in Swedish — Frontiers in Psychology
- Key
- vergoossen-2020-hen-processing
- Authors
- Vergoossen, Hellen P.; Pärnamets, Philip; Renström, Emma A.; Gustafsson Sendén, Marie
- Issued
- 2020
- Type
- article-journal
- Container
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Volume
- 11
Raw CSL JSON
{
"DOI": "10.3389/fpsyg.2020.574356",
"URL": "https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.574356/full",
"type": "article-journal",
"title": "Are New Gender-Neutral Pronouns Difficult to Process in Reading? The Case of Hen in Swedish",
"author": [
{
"given": "Hellen P.",
"family": "Vergoossen"
},
{
"given": "Philip",
"family": "Pärnamets"
},
{
"given": "Emma A.",
"family": "Renström"
},
{
"given": "Marie",
"family": "Gustafsson Sendén"
}
],
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
[
2020
]
]
},
"volume": "11",
"language": "en",
"container-title": "Frontiers in Psychology"
}
Claims
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Participants in the study rated hen positively on average (3.30 on a 4-point scale); about one-third encountered it with some frequency in daily life and two-thirds rarely or never did.
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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.
"The results do not support that gender-neutral pronouns should be avoided because they are difficult to process."
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