Abstract
Four experiments investigate the scope of grammatical planning during spoken sentence production in Japanese and English. Experiment 1 shows that sentence latencies vary with length of sentence-initial subject phrase. Exploiting the head-final property of Japanese, Experiments 2 and 3 extend this result by showing that in a 2-phrase subject phrase, sentence latency varies with the length of the sentence-initial phrase rather than that of the whole subject phrase or its head phrase. Experiment 4 confirms this finding in English. The authors' interpretation suggests that these effects derive from grammatical encoding processes. Planning scope varies according to the relation between the 2 phrases composing the subject phrase. A thematically defined functional phrase is suggested as defining this scope.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 791-810 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2007 |
Keywords
- planning scope
- grammatical encoding
- speech production