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Of Beavers and Tables: The Role of Animacy in the Processing of Grammatical Gender Within a Picture-Word Interference Task

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    Identifier: imarina:9225580
    Authors:
    Sa-Leite, Ana RitaHaro, JuanComesana, MontserratFraga, Isabel
    Abstract:
    Grammatical gender processing during language production has classically been studied using the so-called picture-word interference (PWI) task. In this procedure, participants are presented with pictures they must name using target nouns while ignoring superimposed written distractor nouns. Variations in response times are expected depending on the congruency between the gender values of targets and distractors. However, there have been disparate results in terms of the mandatory character of an agreement context to observe competitive gender effects and the interpretation of the direction of these effects in Romance languages, this probably due to uncontrolled variables such as animacy. In the present study, we conducted two PWI experiments with European Portuguese speakers who were asked to produce bare nouns. The percentage of animate targets within the list was manipulated: 0, 25, 50, and 100%. A gender congruency effect was found restricted to the 0% list (all targets were inanimate). Results support the selection of gender in transparent languages in the absence of an agreement context, as predicted by the Gender Acquisition and Processing (GAP) hypothesis (Sa-Leite et al., 2019), and are interpreted through the attentional mechanisms involved in the PWI paradigm, in which the processing of animate targets would be favored to the detriment of distractors due to biological relevance and semantic prioritization.
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    Author, as appears in the article.: Sa-Leite, Ana Rita; Haro, Juan; Comesana, Montserrat; Fraga, Isabel;
    Department: Psicologia
    URV's Author/s: Haro Rodriguez, Juan
    Keywords: Syntactic processes Spreading-activation theory Speech production Spanish Semantic prioritization Selection Romance languages evidence Picture-word interference paradigm Noun phrase production Lexical access Grammatical gender Gender congruency effect Gender acquisition and processing hypothesis Congruency Animate monitoring hypothesis Animacy Acquisition
    Abstract: Grammatical gender processing during language production has classically been studied using the so-called picture-word interference (PWI) task. In this procedure, participants are presented with pictures they must name using target nouns while ignoring superimposed written distractor nouns. Variations in response times are expected depending on the congruency between the gender values of targets and distractors. However, there have been disparate results in terms of the mandatory character of an agreement context to observe competitive gender effects and the interpretation of the direction of these effects in Romance languages, this probably due to uncontrolled variables such as animacy. In the present study, we conducted two PWI experiments with European Portuguese speakers who were asked to produce bare nouns. The percentage of animate targets within the list was manipulated: 0, 25, 50, and 100%. A gender congruency effect was found restricted to the 0% list (all targets were inanimate). Results support the selection of gender in transparent languages in the absence of an agreement context, as predicted by the Gender Acquisition and Processing (GAP) hypothesis (Sa-Leite et al., 2019), and are interpreted through the attentional mechanisms involved in the PWI paradigm, in which the processing of animate targets would be favored to the detriment of distractors due to biological relevance and semantic prioritization.
    Thematic Areas: Saúde coletiva Psychology, multidisciplinary Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology (all) Psychology Psicología Nutrição Medicina ii Medicina i Linguística e literatura Interdisciplinar General psychology Filosofía Ensino Engenharias iv Enfermagem Educação física Educação Economia Ciencias sociales Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Ciência da computação Biotecnología Biodiversidade Astronomia / física Artes Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Author's mail: juan.haro@urv.cat
    Author identifier: 0000-0002-3456-4731
    Record's date: 2024-07-27
    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Link to the original source: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.661175/full
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Papper original source: Frontiers In Psychology. 12
    APA: Sa-Leite, Ana Rita; Haro, Juan; Comesana, Montserrat; Fraga, Isabel; (2021). Of Beavers and Tables: The Role of Animacy in the Processing of Grammatical Gender Within a Picture-Word Interference Task. Frontiers In Psychology, 12(), -. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.661175
    Article's DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.661175
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Journal publication year: 2021
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
  • Keywords:

    Psychology (Miscellaneous),Psychology, Multidisciplinary
    Syntactic processes
    Spreading-activation theory
    Speech production
    Spanish
    Semantic prioritization
    Selection
    Romance languages evidence
    Picture-word interference paradigm
    Noun phrase production
    Lexical access
    Grammatical gender
    Gender congruency effect
    Gender acquisition and processing hypothesis
    Congruency
    Animate monitoring hypothesis
    Animacy
    Acquisition
    Saúde coletiva
    Psychology, multidisciplinary
    Psychology (miscellaneous)
    Psychology (all)
    Psychology
    Psicología
    Nutrição
    Medicina ii
    Medicina i
    Linguística e literatura
    Interdisciplinar
    General psychology
    Filosofía
    Ensino
    Engenharias iv
    Enfermagem
    Educação física
    Educação
    Economia
    Ciencias sociales
    Ciências biológicas iii
    Ciências biológicas ii
    Ciências biológicas i
    Ciências ambientais
    Ciências agrárias i
    Ciência da computação
    Biotecnología
    Biodiversidade
    Astronomia / física
    Artes
    Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo
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