Naslov
The gender congruency effect and the selection of free-standing and bound morphemes: Evidence from Croatian

Autori
Costa, Albert ; Kovačić, Damir ; Fedorenko, Evelina ; Caramazza, Alfonso

Izvornik
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition (0278-7393) 29 (2003), 6; 1270-1282

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Speech production; Grammatical information; Gender congruency effect

Sažetak
We report three picture-word interference experiments in which we 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 has an impact on the selection of gender-marked free-standing 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 surfaces 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 free-standing morphemes.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kliničke medicinske znanosti

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