When he can also be she: An ERP study of reflexive pronoun resolution in written Mandarin Chinese

When he can also be she: An ERP study of reflexive pronoun resolution in written Mandarin Chinese

The gender information in written Chinese third person pronouns is not symmetrically encoded: the character for he (他, with semantic radical 人, meaning human) is used as a default referring to every individual, while the character for she (她, with semantic radical 女, meaning woman) indicates females...

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Main Authors: Jui-Ju eSu, Nicola eMolinaro, Margaret eGillon-Dowens, Pei- Shu eTsai, Denise Hsien Wu, Manuel eCarreiras
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
ERPs
Mandarin Chinese
Gender specificity
reflexive pronoun resolution
Type of gender information
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00151/full

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