Does Gender Information Influence Early Phases of Spoken Word Recognition?
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In a cross modal fragment priming study, we tested the hypothesis that gender information is used early to discard gender-incongruent competitors during word comprehension. In three experiments, we compared the lexical decision performances on targets primed by phonological information only (e.g. /kra/-CRAPAUD) or by phonological plus gender information (e.g. unmasc /kra/-CRAPAUD). In all experiments, we found a phonological priming effect that was not modulated by the presence of gender information, whether gender was congruent with the target (Exp1 and Exp2) or incongruent with the target (Exp3). Moreover, phonological facilitation was not modulated by the presence of gender information, whether gender allowed exclusion of less frequent competitors (Exp1) or more frequent ones (Exp2). We concluded that gender information extracted from a gender-marked determiner is not used early in the process of spoken word recognition.
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