Research article summary (published 30 Oct 2000):

Grammatical gender in noun phrase production: the gender interference effect in German.

Full Abstract

Languages appear to differ in the way definite determiners are selected during noun phrase production. M. Miozzo and A. Caramazza (1999) proposed that a distinction should be made between early- and late-selection languages. In early-selection languages, the noun's gender uniquely specifies the definite determiner, whereas in late-selection languages the definite determiner can be specified only during the phonological encoding of the noun phrase. This hypothesis predicts that in picture-word interference experiments on noun phrase production in early selection languages like German, one should obtain a gender interference effect. In 2 experiments on German, this prediction is confirmed. The implications of these results for the proposed distinction between early- and late-selection languages are discussed.

Author information

Author/s: Schriefers, H (H); Teruel, E (E);

Affiliation: Nijmegen University, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, The Netherlands. schriefers(-atsign-)nici.kun.nl

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2000-Nov; vol 26 (issue 6) : pp 1368-77

Dates: Created 2001/01/19; Completed 2001/02/08; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 11185770, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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Adult Attention Decision Making

Germany Humans Linguistics

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