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The Gender-marking Effect in Spoken Word Recognition

Overview
Journal Percept Psychophys
Specialties Psychiatry
Psychology
Date 1994 Nov 1
PMID 7991355
Citations 23
Authors
F Grosjean
J Y Dommergues
E Cornu
D Guillelmon
C Besson
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Abstract

In this paper we examine whether the recognition of a spoken noun is affected by the gender marking--masculine or feminine--that is carried by a preceding word. In the first of two experiments, the gating paradigm was used to study the access of French nouns that were preceded by an appropriate gender marking, carried by an article, or preceded by no gender marking. In the second experiment, subjects were asked to make a lexical decision on the same material. A very strong facilitatory effect was found in both cases. The origin of the gender-marking effect is discussed, as well as the level of processing involved--lexical or syntactic.

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