%0 Generic
%A Esaulova, Yulia
%D 2015
%F heidok:18275
%R 10.11588/heidok.00018275
%T The Prominence of Gender Information in On-line Language Processing: Cross-Linguistic Evidence of Implicit Gender Hierarchies
%U https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/18275/
%X While social gender hierarchies and formal linguistic hierarchies are typically treated as  distinct, the present work combines these theoretical notions offering a novel approach to the  study of mechanisms underlying gender biases in language.  Chapter 1.1 of the Introduction addresses the research on the on-line processing of  gender information that is present in language. Chapter 1.2 introduces interdisciplinary  aspects of the problem, relating the social cognitive notion of gender hierarchies to the  linguistic and prominence hierarchies in language, and thus offers the theoretical grounding of  the present research. Chapter 1.3 states the main research questions of this work and the  research program. Chapter 1.4 provides the general information on the method and data  analyses that were common for the reported experiments. The Overview of studies is based on  a series of experiments and describes materials and main findings of Papers 1-5, as well as my  contribution to each of them. The first study focuses on the recruitment of gender information  for the resolution of anaphoric structures and is mainly discussed in terms of the time-course  of gender processing in language. The next two studies focus on the implicit influences of  gender cues in the interpretation of ambiguous structures in German and French and highlight  the understanding of gender as a prominence feature and its cross-linguistic validity. The last two studies explore other representational formats of gender information and their influences.  Finally, Conclusions summarize the main findings regarding explicit and implicit influences  of gender information, the perspective on gender as a prominence feature, as well as  limitations of the present studies and directions for future research.