Spalek Katharina, Bock Kathryn, Schriefers Herbert
Department of German Language and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10099 Berlin, Germany.
Cognition. 2010 Jan;114(1):123-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.09.011. Epub 2009 Oct 23.
The form of a determiner is dependent on different contextual factors: in some languages grammatical number and grammatical gender determine the choice of a determiner variant. In other languages, the phonological onset of the element immediately following the determiner affects selection, too. Previous work has shown that the activation of opposing determiner forms by a noun's grammatical properties leads to slower naming latencies in a picture naming task, as does the activation of opposing forms by the interaction between a noun's gender and the phonological context. The present paper addresses the question of whether phonological context alone is sufficient to evoke competition between determiner forms. Participants produced English phrases in which a noun phrase's phonology required a determiner that was the same as or differed from the determiner required by the noun itself (e.g., apurple giraffe; an orange giraffe). Naming latencies were slower when the phrase-initial determiner differed from the determiner required by the noun in isolation than when the phrase-initial determiner matched the isolated-noun determiner. This was true both for definite and indefinite determiners. The data show that during the production of a determiner-noun phrase, nouns automatically activate the phonological forms of their determiners, which can compete with the phonological forms that are generated by an assimilation rule.
在一些语言中，语法数和语法性决定限定词变体的选择。在其他语言中，紧跟限定词之后的元素的语音起始也会影响选择。先前的研究表明，名词的语法属性激活相反的限定词形式会导致图片命名任务中的命名潜伏期延长，名词的性与语音语境之间的相互作用激活相反的形式也会如此。本文探讨仅语音语境是否足以引发限定词形式之间的竞争这一问题。参与者生成英语短语，其中名词短语的语音要求一个限定词与名词本身所需的限定词相同或不同（例如，一只紫色的长颈鹿；一只橙色的长颈鹿）。当短语开头的限定词与孤立名词所需的限定词不同时，命名潜伏期比短语开头的限定词与孤立名词的限定词匹配时要长。对于限定限定词和不定限定词都是如此。数据表明，在生成限定词 - 名词短语时，名词会自动激活其限定词的语音形式，这可能会与同化规则生成的语音形式产生竞争。
