title: The gender congruency effect and the selection of freestanding and bound morphemes: evidence from croatian.
abstract: The authors report 3 picture-word interference experiments in which they explore some properties of the agreement process in speech production. In Experiment 1, Croatian speakers were asked to produce utterances in which the noun's gender value had an impact on the selection of gender-marked freestanding morphemes (pronouns) while ignoring the presentation of same- or different-gender distractor words. In Experiments 2 and 3, Croatian speakers were asked to name the same pictures using noun phrases in which the noun's gender value surfaced as an inflectional suffix. Different-gender distractors interfered more than same-gender distractors (the gender congruency effect) in Experiment 1, but not in Experiments 2 and 3. These contrasting results show that the cause of the gender congruency effect is not at the level where lexical-grammatical information is selected but at the level of selection of freestanding morphemes.
authors: Department of Psicologia Basica, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Acosta@psi.ub.es
authors: Albert
authors: A
authors: Costa
authors: Damir
authors: D
authors: Kovacic
authors: Evelina
authors: E
authors: Fedorenko
authors: Alfonso
authors: A
authors: Caramazza
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010700:Phonetics; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011930:Reaction Time; D012660:Semantics; D012737:Sex Factors; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D014705:Verbal Behavior