Does plural dominance play a role in spoken picture naming? A comparison of unimpaired and impaired speakers

Biedermann, Britta; Beyersmann, Elisabeth; Mason, Catherine; Nickels, Lyndsey

doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2013.05.001

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“…Our findings are in line with previous findings from spoken word production (Biedermann et al, 2013) and word recognition (Baayen, Burani, et al, 1997;Baayen, Dijkstra, et al, 1997;Baayen et al, 2003;New et al, 2004), suggesting that the production of morphologically complex words is biased depending on the relative frequency between the whole word and its stem morpheme. These results are inconsistent with the morphological processing component of Levelt et al's (1999) spoken word production theory, proposing that singular-dominant and plural-dominant plurals differ at the lexical-conceptual and lexical-syntactic level (Figure 3, Panel A).…”

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“…A recent spoken picture-naming study in English replicated the pattern previously observed in word recognition, showing that while singular-dominant singulars were named faster and more accurately than their plurals, there was no difference between pluraldominant singulars and plurals (Biedermann, Beyersmann, Mason, & Nickels, 2013). However, a Dutch picturenaming study revealed a contrasting pattern of results (Baayen, Levelt, Schreuder, & Ernestus, 2008).…”

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“…Panel A represents the production of singular-dominant and plural-dominant plurals, based on a word production theory proposed by Levelt et al (1999). Panel B refers to a morphological processing theory of word production proposed by Biedermann et al (2013), and Panel C refers to a theory by Nickels et al (2014).…”

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“…Materials were created following the selection criteria in Biedermann et al (2013). We selected 80 targets, which were subdivided into 40 plural-dominant and 40 singulardominant words.…”

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“…The procedure was adapted from Biedermann et al (2013). Stimuli were presented centrally on-screen using DMDX (Forster & Forster, 2003).…”

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The production of singular- and plural-dominant nouns in Dutch

Beyersmann

Dutton

Amer

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Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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The role of number dominance (singular vs. plural) in word production has revealed contrasting results in Dutch and English. Here, we compared the production of Dutch regular plural forms that are more frequent than their stems (pluraldominant plurals) to plurals that are less frequent than their stems (singular-dominant plurals) in a spoken picture-naming paradigm. Moreover, the role of inflectional entropy during spoken word production was assessed. The results revealed that singular-dominant singulars were produced significantly faster and more accurately than their corresponding plurals, independently of inflectional entropy. However, the production of plural-dominant plurals and singulars was modulated by inflectional entropy, and a plural disadvantage only found if the inflectional variants were not uniformly distributed. Critically, uniformly distributed variants showed a plural advantage in this condition. Our findings suggest that singulardominant and plural-dominant plurals are processed differently, which we discuss in the context of morphological processing theories in spoken language production.

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“…Materials were created following the selection criteria in Biedermann et al (2013). We selected 80 targets, which were subdivided into 40 plural-dominant and 40 singulardominant words.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The procedure was adapted from Biedermann et al (2013). Stimuli were presented centrally on-screen using DMDX (Forster & Forster, 2003).…”

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The duration of word-final s in English: A comparison of regular-plural and pluralia-tantum nouns

Schlechtweg

Corbett

2021

Morphology

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The alveolar fricative occurs in word-final position in English in different grammatical functions. Nominal suffixes may indicate plurality (e.g. cars), genitive case (e.g. car’s) or plurality and genitive case in cumulation (e.g. cars’). Further, there are the third person singular verbal suffix (e.g. she fears) and the cliticized forms of the third person singular forms of have and be (e.g. she’s been lucky; she’s friendly). There is also non-affixal s (e.g. freeze (noun)). Against the standard view that all these types are homophonous, several empirical studies have shown that at least some of the fricatives listed can actually be differentiated in their duration. The present article expands this line of research and considers a further case, which has not been included in previous analyses: pluralia-tantum nouns (e.g. goggles). We report on a carefully controlled reading study in which native speakers of British English produced pluralia-tantum and comparable regular-plural nouns (e.g. toggles). The duration of the word-final fricative was measured, and it was found that the two do not systematically differ in this acoustic parameter. The new data are interpreted in comparison to relevant previous studies, and against the background of the similarities of pluralia-tantum and regular-plural nouns.

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Multicolored words: Uncovering the relationship between reading mechanisms and synesthesia

Blazej

Cohen-Goldberg

2016

Cortex

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Does plural dominance play a role in spoken picture naming? A comparison of unimpaired and impaired speakers

Cited by 18 publications

References 35 publications

The production of singular- and plural-dominant nouns in Dutch

The production of singular- and plural-dominant nouns in Dutch

The duration of word-final s in English: A comparison of regular-plural and pluralia-tantum nouns

Multicolored words: Uncovering the relationship between reading mechanisms and synesthesia

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