Italian Sentence Comprehension Data on Masculine Generic Forms

A 33.4 KB dataset from figshare contains results from a psycholinguistic study on grammatical gender bias. The study, authored by Alessandra Rea and last updated in May 2026, used a sentence evaluation paradigm where participants judged the sensibility of gender-marked continuations. Results indicated that masculine plural forms used as generics led to biased judgments and longer reaction times for female continuations.

Use Cases

• Analyzing reaction time differences based on gender-marked sentence continuations mentioned in the description
• Studying the influence of masculine generic forms on comprehension bias in Italian
• Training models to detect or quantify gender bias in sentence-pair evaluation tasks

Strengths

• Data is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
• The description provides a clear methodological outline of the sentence evaluation paradigm.
• The dataset includes reaction time data, as indicated in the results.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 33.4 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

A sentence evaluation paradigm was used, where participants judged if a second sentence was a sensible continuation of a first sentence introducing a professional role name.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 04:28:23; freshness should be verified.