Agent-Patient Similarity Affects Sentence Structure in Language Production: Evidence from Subject Omissions in Mandarin

Agent-Patient Similarity Affects Sentence Structure in Language Production: Evidence from Subject Omissions in Mandarin

Interference effects from semantically similar items are well-known in studies of single word production, where the presence of semantically similar distractor words slows picture naming. This article examines the consequences of this interference in sentence production and tests the hypothesis tha...

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Main Authors: Yaling eHsiao, Yannan eGao, Maryellen C MacDonald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
sentence production
interference
grammatical encoding
Language production
pro-drop
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01015/full

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