This article addresses the question of gender bias observed in constructed examples of French syntax articles. Drawing our inspiration from Macaulay and Brice (1997) and Pabst et al. (2018)’s studies of English, we investigate the way women and men are depicted in constructed examples in syntax articles in French. We looked at grammatical functions, thematic roles and lexical choices and found a strong male bias in the use of gendered noun phrases (i.e. more references to men than to women; men are more likely to be in a subject position as well as being referred to via pronouns, and more likely to be agents and experiencers). Furthermore, women and men are not related to the same lexical choices. Besides, since French is a grammatical gender language where masculine gender can also be intended as gender neutral, we designed a second study to investigate masculine marked noun phrases (ambiguous masculines, AMs). When we compared AM noun phrases to female and male arguments in terms of grammatical functions and thematic roles, we found that, in production, they were different than true masculines. We discuss the implications of our results for the meaning of ‘gender neutral masculines’ and for practices anchoring gender discrimination.

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让在玛丽修车时洗碗：法语句法文章中社会性别的定性和定量研究

本文解决了在构建的法语句法文章示例中观察到的性别偏见问题。我们从 Macaulay 和 Brice (1997) 以及 Pabst 等人那里汲取灵感。（2018）的英语研究，我们调查了女性和男性在法语语法文章中的构建示例中的描述方式。我们研究了语法功能、主题角色和词汇选择，发现在使用带有性别的名词短语时存在强烈的男性偏见（即更多地提及男性而不是女性；男性更可能处于主题位置以及被提及通过代词，更有可能是代理人和体验者）。此外，女性和男性与相同的词汇选择无关。此外，由于法语是一种语法性别语言，其中男性性别也可以表示性别中立，我们设计了第二项研究来调查男性标记的名词短语（歧义男性，AMs）。当我们在语法功能和主题角色方面将 AM 名词短语与女性和男性论点进行比较时，我们发现，在生产中，它们与真正的男性不同。我们讨论了我们的结果对“性别中立男性”的含义和锚定性别歧视的做法的影响。