Semantic and syntactic forces in noun phrase production.

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Three experiments investigated semantic and syntactic effects in the production of phrases in Dutch. Bilingual participants were presented with English nouns and were asked to produce an adjective + noun phrase in Dutch including the translation of the noun. In 2 experiments, the authors blocked items by either semantic category or grammatical gender. Participants performed the task slower when the target nouns were of the same semantic category than when they were from different categories and faster when the target nouns had the same gender than when they had different genders. In a final experiment, both manipulations were crossed. The authors replicated the results of the first 2 experiments, and no interaction was found. These findings suggest a feedforward flow of activation between lexico-semantic and lexico-syntactic information.

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Author/s: Vigliocco, Gabriella (G); Lauer, Marcus (M); Damian, Markus F (MF); Levelt, Willem J M (WJ);

Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. g.vigliocco@ucl.ac.uk

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

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

Reference: 2002-Jan; vol 28 (issue 1) : pp 46-58

Dates: Created 2002/02/05; Completed 2002/07/31; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 11831212, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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