Access to Phonological and Gender Information during Visual Word Recognition
Year: 2005
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Alario and Caramazza (2002) have suggested that during noun production, gender and phonological information are both involved in determiner selection, although they act independently.They also suggested that this process occurs later in French than in other languages like German and Dutch.One possible reason is that in French, some determiner forms depend on the initial phoneme of the noun (e.g., the feminine possessive determiner), while others do not (e.g., the indefinite article).The aim of our study was to track the time course of these factors during word comprehension.A lexical decision task and three gender decision experiments (selection of the indefinite article, the possessive determiner or Masculine/Feminine categorization) were conducted.We observed that all gender decision tasks were sensitive to the initial phoneme, whereas a gender effect was only found for categorization possessive articles.The results support the hypothesis that determiners are selected late in comprehension, as in production.
Institution: Université Lumière Lyon 2
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W873058415