Type and number of violations and the grammatical congruency effect in lexical decision.
Number
589
Year
1987
Drawer
10
Entry Date
11/17/1999
Authors
Lukatela, G., Kostic, A., Todorovic, D., Carello, C., & Turvey, M. T.
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Publication
Psychological Review, 49, 37-43.
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Abstract
72 undergraduate native speakers/readers of Serbo-Croatian made lexical decisions on inflected nouns and legally inflected pseudonouns following inflected possessive pronouns. A possessive pronoun and the noun or pseudonoun that followed it could agree or disagree in case, gender, and number or disagree simultaneously on 2 of the 3. A grammatical congruency effect was observed for both nouns and pseudonouns. Acceptance latencies were shorter and rejection latencies were longer for inflectional agreement than inflectional disagreement. Results are discussed in terms of (1) the automaticity of syntactic processes and (2) the properties of a decision-making device (specially tailored to rapid lexical evaluations) relative to the properties of the language processor.
