Interaction between Phonological and Grammatical Processing in Single Word Production in Kiswahili

Autor/inn/en	Alcock, K. J.; Ngorosho, D.
Titel	Interaction between Phonological and Grammatical Processing in Single Word Production in Kiswahili
Quelle	In: Language and Speech, 47 (2004) 1, S.1-30 (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8309
DOI	10.1177/00238309040470010101
Schlagwörter	African Languages; Semantics; Nouns; Grammar; Linguistic Theory; Pictorial Stimuli; Syntax; Language Processing; Young Adults; Adolescents; Grade 5; Grade 6; Grade 7; Priming; Phonology; Tanzania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Semantik; Grammatik; Linguistische Theorie; Fantasieanregung; Sprachverarbeitung; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; Fonologie; Tansania
Abstract	Grammatical priming of picture naming was investigated in Kiswahili, which has a complex grammatical noun class system (a system like grammatical gender), with up to 15 noun classes that have obligatory agreements on adjectives, verbs, pronouns and other parts of speech. Participants heard a grammatically agreeing (concordant), nonagreeing (discordant) or neutral prime before seeing a picture of a common object and being asked to name the object. Priming was found, with naming following concordant primes being faster than naming following the neutral prime ("say"). However, more interestingly, effects were found such that where two noun classes share a prefix, the grammatical prime from each of these two noun classes also primed words that have the same prefix but are not in the same noun class, and hence for which the prime was not grammatical. It is concluded that the prime appears to be facilitating the phonological form of the prefix rather than the syntacto-semantic group of words that are known as a noun class, and that the phonological form associated with a grammatical entity may be more significant in its processing than has previously been supposed. (Contains 4 tables, 8 figures and 1 footnote.) (As Provided).
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