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Ivanova, Iva; Pickering, Martin J.; McLean, Janet F.; Costa, Albert; Branigan, Holly P. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
We investigate whether people might come to produce utterances that they regard as ungrammatical by examining the production of ungrammatical verb-construction combinations (e.g., "The dancer donates the soldier the apple") after exposure to both grammatical and ungrammatical sentences. We contrast two accounts of how such production might take…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Persistence, Grammar, Priming
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Runnqvist, Elin; Strijkers, Kristof; Alario, F.-Xavier; Costa, Albert – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Several studies have shown that concepts spread activation to words of both of a bilingual's languages. Therefore, a central issue that needs to be clarified is how a bilingual manages to restrict his speech production to a single language. One influential proposal is that when speaking in one language, the other language is inhibited. An…
Descriptors: Speech, Semantics, Interference (Language), Spanish
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Strijkers, Kristof; Holcomb, Phillip J.; Costa, Albert – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
The present study explored when and how the top-down intention to speak influences the language production process. We did so by comparing the brain's electrical response for a variable known to affect lexical access, namely word frequency, during overt object naming and non-verbal object categorization. We found that during naming, the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Intention, Classification, Brain
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Navarrete, Eduardo; Costa, Albert – Journal of Memory and Language, 2005
Four experiments are reported exploring whether distractor pictures activate their phonological properties in the course of speech production. In Experiment 1, participants were presented with two pictures and were asked to name one while ignoring the other. Distractor pictures were phonologically related, semantically related or unrelated to the…
Descriptors: Speech Skills, Phonology, Semantics, Experiments