The processing of free and bound gender-marked morphemes in speech production: evidence from Dutch.
In many languages, the production of noun phrases requires the selection of gender-marked elements like determiners or inflectional suffixes. There is a recent debate as to whether the selection of freestanding gender-marked elements, such as determiners, follows the same processing mechanisms as the selection of bound gender-marked morphemes, such as adjective suffixes. Most of the evidence on which this debate is based relates to the gender-congruency effect in picture-word interference experiments. In the present article, the authors address this issue with a pure picture-naming task, extending previous work in German (H. Schriefers, J. D. Jescheniak, & A. Hantsch, 2005). The results of the present study on noun phrase production in Dutch show that both types of gender-marked morphemes are selected via the same basic processing mechanisms.
Department of PsychologyUniversity of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Kristin
K
Lemhöfer
Herbert
H
Schriefers
Jörg D
JD
Jescheniak
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010700:Phonetics; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D014705:Verbal Behavior / Q000502:physiology*