Hommage à Georges Duby, membre de l’Académie française et professeur au Collège de France

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Des (dés)accords grammaticaux dans la dénomination écrite de la personne en France : un tumulte graphique entre passions tristes et passions joyeuses by Manuel Perez, Katy Barasc, Hélène Giraudo

“…One of the often-repeated criticisms is the un-pronounceability of the proposed spellings, criticism that remind the phonocratic support of the linguistics epistemology and the ancillary relegation of writing – relegation reinforced by the Académie française report.Stating a peculiar efficiency of writing supposes breaking the link between sounds and letters, shutting down order keepers arguments. …”
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Démêler les effets des stéréotypes et le genre grammatical dans le biais masculin : une approche expérimentale by Célia Richy, Heather Burnett

“…This paper presents a new psycholinguistic experimental paradigm, allowing to untangle the impact of grammatical gender and gender stereotypes on human-referring noun phrases in French.On the one hand, traditional and prescriptive grammars (e.g. Académie Française, Grevisse & Goose 2008) argue that masculine grammatical gender in French is a neutral or “undifferentiated” gender. …”
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