Gender priming in Italian |
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Authors: | Elizabeth Bates Antonella Devescovi Arturo Hernandez Luigi Pizzamiglio |
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Institution: | 1. Center for Research in Language 0526, University of California, 92093-0526, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 2. University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy 3. University of Rome “La Sapienza” Clinica Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
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Abstract: | The goals of the present study were (1) to determine whether grammatical gender on a noun modifier can prime recognition of the following noun, (2) to determine whether the priming effect involves facilitation, inhibition, or both, and (3) to compare performance across three different tasks that vary in the degree to which explicit attention to gender is required, including word repetition, gender monitoring, and grammaticality judgment. Results showed a clear effect of gender priming, involving both facilitation and inhibition. Priming was observed whether or not the subjects’ attention was directed to gender per se. Results suggest that gender priming involves a combination of controlled postlexical processing and automatic prelexical processing. Implications for different models of lexical access are discussed, with special reference to modular versus interactive-activation theories. |
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