Plural dominance and the production of determiner-noun phrases in French
(2018) PLoS One — Vol. 13, n° 7, p. e0200723 (2018)
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Beyersmann, Elisabeth 
- Abstract
- In two experiments, we examined the functional locus of plural dominance in the French spoken word production system, where singulars and plurals share the same phonological word form. The materials included singular-dominant (singular more frequent than plural) andplural-dominant nouns (plural more frequent than singular). In Experiment 1, participants were instructed to produce determiner-noun phrases in response to singular and plural depictions of objects. In contrast to the dominance-by-number interaction that is typically observed in English, Dutch and German, the French picture-naming data revealed a main effect of number, but no effect of plural dominance. When participants were instructed to produce determiner-noun phrases in a reading aloud task (Experiment 2), where number is orthographically marked, a number-by-dominance interaction emerged. Our data suggest that plural dominance is encoded at the word form level within the context of recent theories of spoken word production.
- Affiliations
DepartmentofCognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Sydney, Australia, School of Psychology and Speech Psychology, Curtin University, Perth, Australia Aix Marseille Universite, CNRS, LPC, Marseille, France Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), Faculty of Humanities & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden, TheNetherlands, Institut fur Psychologie, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Beyersmann, E., Biedermann, B., Alario, F.-X., Schiller, N. O., Hameau, S., Lorenz, A., & Xu, B. (2018). Plural dominance and the production of determiner-noun phrases in French. PLoS One, 13(7), e0200723. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200723 (Original work published 2018)