Table 4.
Mean reading times (ms) for first sentences for the texts in which the nouns were intended to be interpreted specifically.
| Stereotype | Female | Neutral | Male | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pronoun in second sentence | Fem | Masc | Fem | Masc | Fem | Masc | |
| PAST TENSE | |||||||
| Noun Group | Unpaired | 4914 | 4692 | 4258 | 3321 | 3884 | 3443 |
| Paired | 4467 | 4567 | 4512 | 3612 | 4575 | 4017 | |
| Colloquial | 3748 | 4328 | 3877 | 3674 | 4479 | 4373 | |
| PRESENT TENSE | |||||||
| Noun Group | Unpaired | 4469 | 3628 | 3841 | 4321 | 3122 | 3358 |
| Paired | 4018 | 3581 | 3455 | 3839 | 3715 | 4126 | |
| Colloquial | 3776 | 3914 | 4209 | 4008 | 4956 | 4229 | |
For the past tense passages, the gender of the pronoun in the second sentence is also the gender of the inflection of the verb in the first sentence.