Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7, George Square, Edinburgh, Scotland EH8 9JZ.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2010 Nov;36(6):1414-21. doi: 10.1037/a0020432.
Determiner selection requires the retrieval of the noun's syntactic features (e.g., gender) and sometimes of its phonological features. Miozzo and Caramazza (1999) argued that the selection of determiners in Germanic languages is more straightforward than in Romance languages because it is not dependent on the phonological properties of the following word. In the present study, we used the picture-word interference paradigm to investigate the dependency of the determiner on the noun's features in French. In 3 experiments, we found a gender congruency effect at +200 stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), indicating that participants were slower to produce the name of a picture (determiner + noun) when the picture-word pair was incongruent in gender than when it was congruent. We failed to replicate this effect at 0 SOA, in line with previous studies (Alario & Caramazza, 2002). Our results suggest that the features involved in determiner selection are not language specific but rather are specific to the determiner system.
限定词选择需要检索名词的句法特征（例如，性别），有时还需要检索其语音特征。Miozzo 和 Caramazza（1999）认为，德语中限定词的选择比罗曼语中更直接，因为它不依赖于后续单词的语音属性。在本研究中，我们使用图片-词汇干扰范式来研究法语中限定词对名词特征的依赖。在 3 个实验中，我们在+200 刺激呈现时间间隔（SOA）处发现了性别一致性效应，表明当图片-词汇对在性别上不一致时，参与者说出图片（限定词+名词）的速度会变慢，而当它们一致时，参与者的反应速度会变快。我们在 0 SOA 处未能复制这种效应，这与之前的研究结果一致（Alario 和 Caramazza，2002）。我们的结果表明，限定词选择中涉及的特征不是特定于语言的，而是特定于限定词系统的。
