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COGNITION
Volume 82, Issue 3, Pages 179-223Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(01)00158-5
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speech production; lexical selection; closed class; determiners
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS [R01DC004542] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIDCD NIH HHS [DC 04542] Funding Source: Medline
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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. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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