In recent decades, certain changes have taken place in the language that reflect voluntary choices of the words used to characterize people; these have focused largely on the conscious and conscientious substitution of neutral, sexless words like individual(s), person , and people for terms that normally denote only males.
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(ROOT (S (S (PP (IN In) (NP (JJ recent) (NNS decades))) (, ,) (NP (JJ certain) (NNS changes)) (VP (VBP have) (VP (VBN taken) (NP (NN place)) (PP (IN in) (NP (NP (DT the) (NN language)) (SBAR (WHNP (WDT that)) (S (VP (VBP reflect) (NP (NP (JJ voluntary) (NNS choices)) (PP (IN of) (NP (NP (DT the) (NNS words)) (VP (VBN used) (S (VP (TO to) (VP (VB characterize) (NP (NNS people))))))))))))))))) (: ;) (S (NP (DT these)) (VP (VBP have) (VP (VBN focused) (ADVP (RB largely)) (PP (IN on) (NP (NP (DT the) (ADJP (JJ conscious) (CC and) (JJ conscientious)) (NN substitution)) (PP (IN of) (NP (ADJP (JJ neutral) (, ,) (JJ sexless)) (NNS words))))) (PP (IN like) (NP (NP (NN individual)) (PRN (-LRB- -LRB-) (PRP s) (-RRB- -RRB-)) (, ,) (NP (NN person)) (, ,) (CC and) (NP (NNS people)))) (PP (IN for) (NP (NP (NNS terms)) (SBAR (WHNP (WDT that)) (S (ADVP (RB normally)) (VP (VBP denote) (NP (JJ only) (NNS males)))))))))) (. .)))
Language has gotten much less sexist.
( Language ( ( has ( gotten ( much ( less sexist ) ) ) ) . ) )
(ROOT (S (NP (NNP Language)) (VP (VBZ has) (VP (VBN gotten) (S (ADJP (RB much) (RBR less) (JJ sexist))))) (. .)))