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Gender priming in Italian

E Bates1, A Devescovi, A Hernandez

  • 1Center for Research in Language 0526, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0526, USA.

Perception & Psychophysics
|October 1, 1996
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Grammatical gender influences noun recognition, showing both faster recognition (facilitation) and slower recognition (inhibition). This priming effect occurs regardless of whether participants focus on gender, suggesting automatic and controlled processing.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Grammatical gender systems are prevalent in many languages.
  • The cognitive mechanisms underlying grammatical gender processing are not fully understood.
  • Lexical access models propose different roles for automatic and controlled processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate grammatical gender priming on noun recognition.
  • To determine if priming involves facilitation, inhibition, or both.
  • To compare priming effects across tasks with varying attentional demands on gender.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed three tasks: word repetition, gender monitoring, and grammaticality judgment.
  • Noun recognition times were measured.

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  • The influence of noun modifier grammatical gender on subsequent noun recognition was analyzed.

    • Main Results:

    • A significant grammatical gender priming effect was observed.
    • This effect included both facilitation (faster recognition) and inhibition (slower recognition).
    • Priming occurred irrespective of explicit attention to grammatical gender.

    Conclusions:

    • Grammatical gender priming impacts lexical access.
    • The findings suggest a combination of automatic prelexical and controlled postlexical processing.
    • Results inform theories of lexical access, particularly modular versus interactive-activation models.