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    "title": "Gender Competition in the Production of Nonbinary ‘They’",
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    "abstract": "<p>Two experiments test how college students use nonbinary they to refer to a single and specific person whose pronouns are they/them, e.g., &ldquo;Alex played basketball on the neighborhood court. At one point they made a basket,&rdquo; compared to matched stories about characters with binary (she/her or he/him) pronouns. Experiment 1 shows that for both types of pronouns, people use pronouns more in a one-person than a two-person context. In both experiments, people produce nonbinary they at least as frequently as binary pronouns, suggesting that any difficulty does not result in pronoun avoidance in spoken language, even though it does in written language (Arnold et al., 2022). Nevertheless, there is evidence that nonbinary they is somewhat difficult, in that people made gender errors on about 9% of trials, and they used a more acoustically prominent and disfluent-sounding pronunciation for nonbinary pronouns than binary pronouns. However, exposure &nbsp;to &nbsp;they &nbsp;in &nbsp;the &nbsp;context &nbsp;of &nbsp;the &nbsp;experiment &nbsp;had &nbsp;no &nbsp;effect &nbsp;on &nbsp;frequency, &nbsp;accuracy, &nbsp;or &nbsp;pronunciation of pronouns. This provides the first evidence of how nonbinary they is used in a naturalistic storytelling context and shows that while it poses some minor difficulties, it can be used successfully in a supportive context.&nbsp;</p>",
    "language": "eng",
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            "first_name": "Jennifer",
            "middle_name": "E",
            "last_name": "Arnold",
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            "department": "Psychology and Neuroscience"
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            "institution": "UNC Chapel Hill",
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            "institution": "UNC Chapel Hill",
            "department": "Dept. of Psychology and Neuroscience"
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    "date_submitted": "2023-04-12T17:36:38.275000Z",
    "date_accepted": "2024-01-21T16:49:09.158000Z",
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