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The production of determiners: evidence from French.
Full Abstract
In numerous languages determiner forms depend not only on semantic information but also on several other kinds of information, such as the grammatical gender of the controlling noun or the phonological properties of the context. In the present research we contrasted two possible accounts of determiner retrieval:
one in which every type of required information is bundled into a unitized representation for determiner retrieval and one in which each type of information can individually activate determiner forms. These alternative hypotheses were investigated in three experiments in which native speakers of French named pictures with simple [determiner + noun] or complex [determiner + adjective + noun] noun phrases. In the experiments, the properties of the contextual cues that drive the retrieval of the determiner were manipulated - for example, we manipulated the number of determiner forms that are compatible with a given grammatical gender and the number of grammatical genders that a given determiner form can be used with. Neither hypothesis can fully account for the results of the three experiments. However, a hybrid hypothesis that combines the principal features of the two hypotheses provides a good account of the data.
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Author information
Author/s: Alario, F-Xavier (FX); Caramazza, Alfonso (A);
Affiliation: Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33, Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Grants: DC 04542 (Agency:United States NIDCD)
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Journal: Cognition (Cognition), published in Netherlands. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Jan; vol 82 (issue 3) : pp 179-223
Dates: Created 2001/12/18; Completed 2002/03/25; Revised 2007/11/14;
PMID: 11747862, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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