Don't touch my projectile: Gender bias and stereotyping in syntactic examples

Language

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 798-825

  Macaulay, Monica ^a,c   Brice, Colleen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 0346776269     PISSN: 00978507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lan.1997.0031     Document Type: Article

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