The activation of syntactic features of words during language production

Thomas Pechmann
University of Leipzig


So far, the time course of lexical access in language production has
exclusively been studied with respect to the activation of semantic
and phonological properties of words. Most of the experimental
evidence supports the so-called two stage theory of lexical access
(Garrett, 1975; Levelt, 1989) which claims that lexical access
consists of two distinct consecutive stages. At the first stage
semantic-syntactic features of words are activated, at the second
stage the phonological word forms. While this assumption has been
confirmed in several experiments regarding the activation of semantic
and phonological information, evidence concerning the activation of
syntactic features has been lacking. I shall report a series of
experiments which are aimed at filling in this gap.


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