The influence of linguistic and social attitudes on grammaticality judgments of singular ‘they’

Bradley, Evan D.

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The influence of linguistic and social attitudes on grammaticality judgments of singular ‘they’

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Pulido, M. F., Mulík, S., & Dussias, P. E. (2026) · Cognition · doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2026.106729

Authors: Bradley, E. D.
Affiliations: Pennsylvania State University (US)
Corresponding author: Bradley, Evan D.
ORCID: Bradley, Evan D.
Venue: Language Sciences
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2020-03
Volume: 78
Pages: 101272
ISSN: 0388-0001 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2020.101272
OpenAlex: W3003764105
Cited by: 75
References: 35
Citations by year: 2026: 13 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 2
FWCI: 11.05
Type: journal article
Language: en
Update notices: erratum (2023-11-01)
Open access: green
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Licence: cc-by-nc-nd
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Locations: Language Sciences (publishedVersion)
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Topics: Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Studies in Language
Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistic Variation and Morphology
Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies
Keywords: singular they, gender-neutral language, grammaticality judgment, linguistic prescriptivism, sexism, hostile sexism, benevolent sexism, gender ideology, third-person singular pronouns, language attitudes, language reform, American English

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