Schriefers H, Teruel E
Nijmegen University, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, The Netherlands.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2000 Nov;26(6):1368-77. doi: 10.1037//0278-7393.26.6.1368.
Languages appear to differ in the way definite determiners are selected during noun phrase production. M. Miozzo and A. Caramazza (1999) proposed that a distinction should be made between early- and late-selection languages. In early-selection languages, the noun's gender uniquely specifies the definite determiner, whereas in late-selection languages the definite determiner can be specified only during the phonological encoding of the noun phrase. This hypothesis predicts that in picture-word interference experiments on noun phrase production in early selection languages like German, one should obtain a gender interference effect. In 2 experiments on German, this prediction is confirmed. The implications of these results for the proposed distinction between early- and late-selection languages are discussed.
在名词短语生成过程中,不同语言在限定词的选择方式上似乎存在差异。M. 米奥佐和A. 卡拉马扎(1999年)提出,应区分早期选择语言和晚期选择语言。在早期选择语言中,名词的性能够唯一确定限定词,而在晚期选择语言中,限定词只能在名词短语的语音编码过程中确定。这一假设预测,在德语这类早期选择语言的名词短语生成的图片-单词干扰实验中,应该会得到性别的干扰效应。在关于德语的两项实验中,这一预测得到了证实。本文讨论了这些结果对于所提出的早期选择语言和晚期选择语言之间区别的意义。