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Lexico-syntactic features are activated but not selected in bare noun production: Electrophysiological evidence from overt picture naming
- Source :
- Cortex, 116, 294-307, Cortex
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- To produce a word, speakers need to retrieve the lexico-syntactic representation of the word and encode the phonological form for articulation. It is not precisely known yet if a word's syntactic features (e.g., number, gender, etc.) are automatically activated and selected in bare noun production. Cubelli, Lotto, Paolieri, Girelli, and Job (2005) proposed that only in languages that have a complex morphological structure (e.g., Italian), the selection of grammatical gender is required. In languages with a relatively simpler morphological structure, the selection of grammatical gender is by-passed. Here, we investigated this issue further by employing a language with an extremely simple morphological structure, i.e., Mandarin Chinese. Using the picture-word interference paradigm, we manipulated the congruency of the lexico-syntactic classifier feature (comparable to grammatical gender) between the target picture and the superimposed distractor word. We measured participants' naming latencies and their electroencephalogram (EEG). As a result, relative to the classifier-congruent condition, classifier incongruency elicited a stronger N400 effect in the ERP analyses, suggesting the automatic activation of lexico-syntactic features in bare noun production. However, classifier congruency did not affect naming latencies, suggesting that the lexico-syntactic feature is not selected in bare noun naming when it is irrelevant for production.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Cognitive Neuroscience
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
computer.software_genre
Mandarin Chinese
050105 experimental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Noun
Classifier (linguistics)
Reaction Time
Selection (linguistics)
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Evoked Potentials
Language
computer.programming_language
Grammatical gender
Psycholinguistics
Verbal Behavior
business.industry
05 social sciences
Electroencephalography
language.human_language
Feature (linguistics)
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
language
Female
Lexico
Affect (linguistics)
Artificial intelligence
Psychology
business
computer
Photic Stimulation
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Natural language processing
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cortex, 116, 294-307, Cortex
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....05b64ed78af4f09161187d81ab597b49