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Is the scope of phonological planning constrained by the syntactical role of the utterance constituents?

Dumay, Nicolas and Damian, Markus and Stadthagen-Gonzalez, Hans and Perez, Miguel (2009) Is the scope of phonological planning constrained by the syntactical role of the utterance constituents? In: Taatgen, Niels and Van Rijn, Hedderik, eds. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, pp. 667-672. ISBN 978-0-9768318-5-3. (KAR id:14928)

Abstract

Five experiments looked the effect of repeated phonemes in the production of color adjective+noun phrases in English ("green gun"), or noun+color adjective phrases in Spanish and French. Whereas phoneme repetition sped up naming latencies in the case of prenominal color adjectives, it induced inhibition in the postnominal case. We argue that these dissociation is not compatible with a genuine crosslinguistic difference in the scope of phonological encoding. Rather we explain it in terms of the interplay between an activation gradient, coding word order, and an activation bias, coding the syntactical role of the utterance constituents.

Item Type: Book section
Uncontrolled keywords: psycholinguistics; phonological planning; speech; production; reaction times; crosslinguistic effects;
Subjects: Q Science > QP Physiology (Living systems)
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User: N. Dumay
Date Deposited: 11 Jun 2009 10:42 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:53 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14928 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Dumay, Nicolas.

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