Effet d’amorçage sur la féminisation des noms de rôles

This paper presents an experimental pilot study conducted to observe whether the feminization of nouns could be primed in children aged 4 to 6 years. Primes were female character nouns introduced in stories read to the children: they were either female nouns known to the children (such as une prince...

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Main Authors: Zelda Cayrecastel, Céline Pozniak, Saveria Colonna
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Language:fra
Published: Association Genres, sexualités, langage 2022-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/glad/5716
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Céline Pozniak
Saveria Colonna
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description This paper presents an experimental pilot study conducted to observe whether the feminization of nouns could be primed in children aged 4 to 6 years. Primes were female character nouns introduced in stories read to the children: they were either female nouns known to the children (such as une princesse/a princess), female nouns that were rare (or even never encountered by the children, such as une capitainesse/a female captain), or epicene nouns (such as une vétérinaire/a veterinarian). The targets were female characters that the children had to name from illustrations. Although the children used mostly masculine forms to designate female characters, we found that more feminine forms were produced as the experiment progressed. Priming the production of feminine forms is thus possible: the more children are exposed to feminine forms, the more likely they are to produce them.
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spellingShingle Zelda Cayrecastel
Céline Pozniak
Saveria Colonna
Effet d’amorçage sur la féminisation des noms de rôles
Glad!
psycholinguistics
morphology
feminization of occupational nouns
priming
language acquisition
title Effet d’amorçage sur la féminisation des noms de rôles
title_full Effet d’amorçage sur la féminisation des noms de rôles
title_fullStr Effet d’amorçage sur la féminisation des noms de rôles
title_full_unstemmed Effet d’amorçage sur la féminisation des noms de rôles
title_short Effet d’amorçage sur la féminisation des noms de rôles
title_sort effet d amorcage sur la feminisation des noms de roles
topic psycholinguistics
morphology
feminization of occupational nouns
priming
language acquisition
url https://journals.openedition.org/glad/5716
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