The Gender Congruency Effect and the Selection of Freestanding and Bound Morphemes: Evidence From Croatian.

Costa, Albert; Kovačić, Damir; Fedorenko, Evelina; Caramazza, Alfonso

doi:10.1037/0278-7393.29.6.1270

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“…However, when the utterances contained gender-marked freestanding determiners, gender-congruent distractors led to faster naming latencies than gender-incongruent distractors (Experiment 1B). 2 Furthermore, given that in Experiment 1A the gender-marked element was an indefinite determiner, this result corroborates the empirical generalization put forward by Costa et al (2003), that is, the presence of a gender congruency effect is independent of whether the noun's gender surfaces in the context of closed class or open class words. That is, gender congruency effects are sometimes present and sometimes absent when the utterance contains closed class words (such as determiners).…”

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“…In contrast to this position but in line with the proposal made by Lapointe and Dell (1989), Costa, Kovacic, Fedorenko, and Caramazza (2003) and Schiller and Caramazza (2003) claimed that the mechanisms by which speakers retrieve freestanding and bound morphemes are different in nature. They argued that gendermarked freestanding morphemes are selected following a selection-by-competition principle.…”

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“…(with the unique exception of Schriefers, 1993;Experiment 2). In this context, the results from Costa et al (2003) prove to be relevant as they demonstrate that the position of the gendermarked morpheme in the utterance is irrelevant for the attainment of gender congruency effects. Consistent with the suggestion made by Lapointe and Dell (1989), it appears that the retrieval of freestanding gender-marked morphemes is subject to competitive processes, as the retrieval of any other freestanding lexical item, presumably because they have to be actively inserted, whereas the retrieval of bound morphemes is not competitive, presumably because they form part of syntactic frames and therefore do not have to be inserted.…”

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Different selection principles of freestanding and bound morphemes in language production.

Schiller¹,

Costa²

2006

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Freestanding and bound morphemes differ in many (psycho)linguistic aspects. Some theorists have claimed that the representation and retrieval of freestanding and bound morphemes in the course of language production are governed by similar processing mechanisms. Alternatively, it has been proposed that both types of morphemes may be selected for production in different ways. In this article, the authors first review the available experimental evidence related to this topic and then present new experimental data pointing to the notion that freestanding and bound morphemes are retrieved following distinct processing principles: freestanding morphemes are subject to competition, bound morphemes not.

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Different selection principles of freestanding and bound morphemes in language production.

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Costa²

2006

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“…Costa et al (2003) used the gender-congruency effect in the picture-word task to investigate the processing of gender-marked elements in Croatian. In their first experiment, they obtained a gender-congruency effect for utterances with a gender-marked accusative pronoun, in other words, with a free-standing gendermarked morpheme (e. (Costa et al, 2003, Experiments 2 and 3). Costa et al (2003) interpreted this result by assuming that morphophonological processes operating with bound morphemes (like gender-marked suffixes) do not involve a simple concatenation in which a stem and an inflectional suffix are first selected independently and are subsequently combined in a phonological frame.…”

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“…In their first experiment, they obtained a gender-congruency effect for utterances with a gender-marked accusative pronoun, in other words, with a free-standing gendermarked morpheme (e. (Costa et al, 2003, Experiments 2 and 3). Costa et al (2003) interpreted this result by assuming that morphophonological processes operating with bound morphemes (like gender-marked suffixes) do not involve a simple concatenation in which a stem and an inflectional suffix are first selected independently and are subsequently combined in a phonological frame. Rather, they assume that morphophonological processes involve phonological transformations, and thus "the role of grammatical features would not be to select a specific bit of phonological material but to select a phonological transformation" (p. 1279).…”

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Selection of Gender-Marked Morphemes in Speech Production.

Schriefers¹,

Jescheniak²,

Hantsch³

2005

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Please be advised that this information was generated on 2018-05-11 and may be subject to change. Schiller and A. Caramazza (2003) and A. Costa, D. Kovacic, E. Fedorenko, and A. Caramazza (2003) have argued that the processing of freestanding gender-marked morphemes (e.g., determiners) and bound gender-marked morphemes (e.g., adjective suffixes) during syntactic encoding in speech production follows distinct principles, with only freestanding morphemes being subject to a competitive selection process. In 3 experiments, the authors tested this hypothesis in German, extending a previous study by H. Schriefers, J.D. Jescheniak, and A. Hantsch (2002). The results suggest that freestanding and bound morphemes are basically processed in the same way, although competition appears to be attenuated for bound morphemes relative to free morphemes. The authors discuss theoretical and methodological implications of this pattern. Selection of Gender-Marked Morphemes in Speech ProductionHerbertIn the past years, the (grammatical) gender-congruency effect obtained in variants of the picture-word task has attracted much attention, as it is viewed as a tool for exploring syntactic encoding processes in speech production. At present, however, there is some dispute with respect to both the locus of the effect and its scope.The gender-congruency effect was first described by Schriefers (1993). In this study, speakers of Dutch were instructed to describe colored line drawings of common objects by producing noun phrases consisting of a gender-marked definite determiner, an adjective, and a noun (e.g., de rode tafel [the com red table]; het rode huis [the neut red house]) while hearing distractor words that had to be ignored. 1 These distractors had either the same grammatical gender as the noun of the target utterance (gendercongruent condition) or a different grammatical gender (genderincongruent condition). Naming latencies were longer in the gender-incongruent condition than in the gender-congruent condition (see also LaHeij, Mak, Sander, & Willeboordse, 1998;Schiller & Caramazza, 2003; van Berkum, 1997, for replications in Dutch, andSchiller &Schriefers & Teruel, 2000, for replications in German). A similar interference pattern was obtained when participants produced noun phrases consisting of an adjective with a gender-marked suffix and a noun (e.g., rode tafel [red com table]; rod huis [red neut house]), but the effect was descriptively smaller than it was for noun phrases with definite determiners. These data suggested that the gender-congruency effect is indicative of lexical competition during syntactic processing, regardless of whether the results of these processes surface as freestanding gender-marked morphemes (e.g., determiners) or bound gender-marked morphemes (e.g., adjective suffixes).Schriefers (1993) interpreted the gender-congruency effect as resulting from competition in selecting the abstract gender feature of the target noun (i.e., either common or neuter). In the gendercongruent condition, it is assumed that ...

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The determiner congruency effect in language production investigated with functional MRI

Heim¹,

Friederici²,

Schiller³

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In language production, naming a picture with a gender-marked determiner phrase is faster in the presence of a distractor noun with the same grammatical gender (congruent condition) as compared with a different grammatical gender (incongruent condition). We investigated the neural correlates of this determiner congruency effect in German with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Participants named pictures of real objects with determiner phrases (e.g. "der Tisch"-the table) in the presence of a gender-congruent or gender-incongruent distractor noun. Different comparisons allow the following functional segregation within the prefrontal cortex. First, the comparison between picture naming versus rest revealed a steeper slope of the haemodynamic response function (HRF) in the gender-congruent than the gender-incongruent condition in the left BA 44, suggesting the involvement of BA 44 in determiner selection. HRF amplitude differences between the congruent and the incongruent condition were observed outside the language network in the right fronto-median wall (congruent > incongruent), and in the left premotor cortex, middle frontal gyrus, cerebellum, and inferior parietal lobe (incongruent > congruent). The latter regions are known to be involved in the processing of incongruence and conflict in general. The data thus reveal the involvement of the left BA 44 in the selection of determiners for language production.

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The Gender Congruency Effect and the Selection of Freestanding and Bound Morphemes: Evidence From Croatian.

Cited by 32 publications

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Different selection principles of freestanding and bound morphemes in language production.

Different selection principles of freestanding and bound morphemes in language production.

Selection of Gender-Marked Morphemes in Speech Production.

The determiner congruency effect in language production investigated with functional MRI

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