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    "pk": 192,
    "title": "No genericity in sight: An exploration of the semantics of masculine generics in German",
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    "abstract": "<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 12px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\">Findings of previous behavioural studies suggest that the semantic nature of what is known as the ‘masculine generic’ in Modern Standard German is indeed not generic but biased towards a masculine reading. Such findings are the cause of debates within and outside linguistic research, as they run counter to the grammarian assumption that the masculine generic form is gender-neutral. The present paper aims to explore the semantics of masculine generics, relating them to&nbsp; those&nbsp; of&nbsp; masculine&nbsp; and&nbsp; feminine&nbsp; explicit&nbsp; counterparts.&nbsp; To&nbsp; achieve&nbsp; this&nbsp; aim,&nbsp; an&nbsp; approach&nbsp; novel&nbsp; to&nbsp; this&nbsp; area&nbsp; of&nbsp; linguistic&nbsp; research&nbsp; is&nbsp; made&nbsp; use&nbsp; of:&nbsp; discriminative&nbsp; learning.&nbsp; Analysing&nbsp; semantic&nbsp; vectors&nbsp; obtained&nbsp; via&nbsp; naive&nbsp; discriminative&nbsp; learning,&nbsp; semantic&nbsp; measures&nbsp; calculated&nbsp; via&nbsp; linear&nbsp; discriminative&nbsp; learning,&nbsp; and&nbsp; taking&nbsp; into&nbsp; account&nbsp; the&nbsp; stereotypicality&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; words&nbsp; under investigation, it is found that masculine generics are semantically much more similar to masculine explicits than to feminine explicits. The results presented in this paper thus support the notion of a masculine bias in masculine generics. Further, new insights into the semantic representations of masculine generics are provided and it is shown that stereotypicality does not modulate the masculine bias.</p><p><br></p>",
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            "first_name": "Dominic",
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            "last_name": "Schmitz",
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            "institution": "Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf",
            "department": "English language and linguistics"
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            "first_name": "Viktoria",
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            "last_name": "Schneider",
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            "institution": "Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf",
            "department": "English language and linguistics"
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            "last_name": "Esser",
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            "institution": "Association for Diversity in Linguistics",
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            "country": "Germany"
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    "date_submitted": "2022-09-05T13:49:40.627000Z",
    "date_accepted": "2023-07-06T14:52:30.961000Z",
    "date_published": "2023-07-31T17:50:00Z",
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