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Determiner selection in noun phrase production.

Herbert Schriefers1, Ansgar Hantsch, Jörg D Jescheniak

  • 1Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Nijmegen University, The Netherlands. schriefers@nici.kun.nl

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition
|September 11, 2002
PubMed
Summary

German speakers showed longer naming times for plural nouns when singular and plural determiners differed by gender. This suggests competition in selecting determiners during noun phrase production.

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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Linguistic Theory
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Language production involves selecting words and grammatical features.
  • Determiners in German are marked for gender, number, and case.
  • Understanding the interaction of grammatical features is key to modeling language production.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the competition between singular and plural determiners during German noun phrase production.
  • To examine the role of gender marking in determiner selection.
  • To test predictions from models of language production.

Main Methods:

  • Native German speakers participated in three experiments.
  • Participants named pictures of objects by producing singular or plural noun phrases.

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  • Naming latencies were recorded for different grammatical conditions.

    • Main Results:

    • Naming latencies were longer for plural utterances when determiners differed in gender (masculine/neuter).
    • No significant difference in latency was found when determiners were identical in gender (feminine).
    • The gender by number interaction disappeared when participants produced bare nouns.

    Conclusions:

    • Singular and plural determiners compete for selection during the production of definite noun phrases.
    • Grammatical features like gender influence the competition process.
    • Findings support models of language production where feature selection involves competition and constraints.