Linguistic Gender and Spoken-Word Recognition in French

@article{citeulike:1368739, abstract = {Eye movements were monitored as French participants followed spoken instructions to use a computer mouse to click on one of four displayed pictures. Experiment 1 demonstrated that, in the absence of grammatical gender in the context preceding the referent name [e.g., cliquez sur les boutons (click on the(plural neut.) buttons(masc.))], participants fixated pictures with names sharing initial sounds with the target [e.g., bouteilles (bottles(fem.))] more than on pictures with phonologically unrelated names, replicating "cohort" effects previously found with this paradigm. When a gender-marked article immediately preceded the noun [e.g., cliquez sur le bouton (click on the(masc.) button)], the early activation of the gender-inconsistent cohort was completely eliminated (Experiment 2). This demonstrates that the set of candidates initially considered for recognition of the noun is constrained by the gender-marked article. Two alternative accounts of these results, one based on grammatical level of processing and the other based on form-based statistics, are discussed.}, author = {Dahan, Delphine and Swingley, Daniel and Tanenhaus, Michael K. and Magnuson, James S. }, citeulike-article-id = {1368739}, doi = {10.1006/jmla.1999.2688}, journal = {Journal of Memory and Language}, keywords = {eye-movements, grammatical-gender, theres}, month = {May}, number = {4}, pages = {465--480}, posted-at = {2007-12-04 21:41:11}, priority = {0}, title = {Linguistic Gender and Spoken-Word Recognition in French}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jmla.1999.2688}, volume = {42}, year = {2000} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1368739 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1368739 TI - Linguistic Gender and Spoken-Word Recognition in French JF - Journal of Memory and Language VL - 42 IS - 4 SP - 465 EP - 480 N2 - Eye movements were monitored as French participants followed spoken instructions to use a computer mouse to click on one of four displayed pictures. Experiment 1 demonstrated that, in the absence of grammatical gender in the context preceding the referent name [e.g., cliquez sur les boutons (click on the(plural neut.) buttons(masc.))], participants fixated pictures with names sharing initial sounds with the target [e.g., bouteilles (bottles(fem.))] more than on pictures with phonologically unrelated names, replicating "cohort" effects previously found with this paradigm. When a gender-marked article immediately preceded the noun [e.g., cliquez sur le bouton (click on the(masc.) button)], the early activation of the gender-inconsistent cohort was completely eliminated (Experiment 2). This demonstrates that the set of candidates initially considered for recognition of the noun is constrained by the gender-marked article. Two alternative accounts of these results, one based on grammatical level of processing and the other based on form-based statistics, are discussed. KW - eye-movements KW - grammatical-gender KW - theres AU - Dahan, Delphine AU - Swingley, Daniel AU - Tanenhaus, Michael AU - Magnuson, James PY - 2000/05// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jmla.1999.2688 ER -