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Le choix des mots| old_uid | 1671 |
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| title | Le choix des mots |
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| start_date | 2006/10/27 |
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| schedule | 11h-12h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | A fundamental aspect of many cognitive models is how they select information (e.g. a representation, a response command, etc.) for further processing. Selection can be defined as the identification of a single representation among alternative candidates that are activated and that are similar to one another on the relevant dimensions. For example, psycholinguistic models are required to make specific claims about how words or phonemes are identified and selected in the course of language use.
In the talk, I will examine how words of different grammatical classes are selected when language is produced. More specifically, I will examine the classic hypothesis that open-class words (e.g. nouns, adjectives) and closed-class words (e.g. determiners, pronouns, etc.) are selected through different mechanisms. The issue was investigated with a variant of the Stroop interference paradigm. Participants were asked to name pictures of common objects with determiner + noun phrases (e.g. "La Table", the table). At the same time, they ignored distractor determiners printed on the pictures. We manipulated the semantic and syntactic features (e.g., number, gender, type of determiner) that were shared or that contrasted between the distractor determiners and the target determiner. The pattern of results observed for closed-class words can be compared to the pattern that is generally observed for open-class words, and the similarities and differences between the two word classes can be assessed. |
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| responsibles | Pélissier, Grainger |
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