Linguistic Gender and Spoken-Word Recognition in French
Title : Linguistic Gender and Spoken-Word Recognition in French Name of researcher : DelphineDahan, Daniel Swingley, Michael K. Tanenhaus, and James S. Magnuson Journal Name : Memory and Language Volume: 42 Year: 2000 Page: 465-480 Background: Monitored from the eye movements of French participants following oral instructions to use a computer mouse to click on one of the four displayed images. Experiment 1 shows that, in the presence of grammatical gender in the context before the referral name [eg, cliquezsur les boutons (click on the (plural neut.) Button (masc.))], Participants glued to the image with the initial share of the voice with the target [ Bouteilles (bottle (fem.))] Is more than a phonological image of an unrelated name, a replication of the "cohort" effect previously found with this paradigm. When the gendermarked article immediately precedes a noun [eg, cliquezsur le bouton (click on (masc.) Button)], the initial activation of inconsis...