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A Purple Giraffe Is Faster than a Purple Elephant: Inconsistent Phonology Affects Determiner Selection in English
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Spalek, Katharina; Bock, Kathryn; Schriefers, Herbert – Cognition, 2010
The form of a determiner is dependent on different contextual factors: in some languages grammatical number and grammatical gender determine the choice of a determiner variant. In other languages, the phonological onset of the element immediately following the determiner affects selection, too. Previous work has shown that the activation of…
Descriptors: Phonology, Nouns, Grammar, Language Processing