Grammatical gender in the production of single words: some evidence from Greek.

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The present study investigated the effect of prior grammatical gender information provided by the production of a bare noun on the production of a syntactically unrelated, gender-inflected color adjective. The target language was Greek. A lexical priming task involving picture naming was employed. Participants saw a series of pictures, some in color and some in black-and-white; they had to name a black-and-white picture with the single noun (prime) and a color picture with the appropriately inflected color adjective (target). Prior gender information was shown to affect subsequent production of gender-marked words. The effect was restricted to nouns of one gender class (masculine) only. The implications of these results for the representation and processing of gender in production are discussed.Copyright 2001 Elsevier Science (USA).

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Author/s: Plemmenou, Evangelia (E); Bard, Ellen G (EG); Branigan, Holly P (HP);

Affiliation: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Brain and language (Brain Lang), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2002 Apr-Jun; vol 81 (issue 1-3) : pp 236-41

Dates: Created 2002/06/25; Completed 2002/07/25; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12081395, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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