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Processing French Processing French a psycholinguistic perspective PETER GOLATO University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign Yale University Press New Haven and London Copyright © by Yale University. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced,in whole or in part,including il- lustrations,in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections and ofthe U.S.Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press),without written permission from the publishers. Publisher:Mary Jane Peluso Editor:Ann-Marie Imbornoni Editorial Assistant:Brie Kluytenaar Production Controller:Karen Stickler Designer:Sonia Shannon Marketing Manager:Timothy Shea Set in Minion type by Integrated Publishing Solutions. Printed in the United States ofAmerica. Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Golato,Peter,– Processing French :a psycholinguistic perspective / Peter Golato p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ---(pbk.:alk.paper) .French language—Psychological aspects. .Psycholinguistics. I.Title. . '.—dc A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity ofthe Council on Library Resources. Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction Theories ofLanguage Processing Priming and Priming Studies Priming with Inflected French Verbs From French Rules to French Words Syntactic Priming with French Nouns Syntactic Priming with French Verbs Conclusion Appendix Notes References Index Acknowledgments Good ideas are rare and seldom spring forth out of nowhere, while bad ideas seem to abound (in my case,anyway).I take full responsibility for any bad ones that appear in this book, while recognizing that the good ones will inevitably have had their source in the work ofothers. I owe a tremendous debt of thanks to those researchers whose collective work inspired me to conduct the studies I offer here.Their work tells a provocative and fascinating story about the mental representation of words and sentences;I fervently hope that I have relayed that story well. I wish to thank the friends and colleagues who lent me their support as I assembled the empirical portions of this book.I thank the Department of French of the University of Illinois for granting me a semester-long teaching release. I thank David Birdsong for his encouragement as I embarked on this project.I thank Viviane Ruellot for assisting me in sub- ject recruitment and for lending me her voice in the creation of stimulus items. And I am indebted to Jeff Magoto, Dana Raymond,and all the Yamadians ofthe University ofOregon’s Yamada Language Center for their warm hospitality and for graciously allowing me testing space at their facility during the summer of. viii Acknowledgments I am grateful for the encouraging feedback and com- ments I have received on presentations ofportions ofthe work described herein.In particular,I thank the audience attending my fall presentation at the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaftof the Department ofGermanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois,as well as the attendees of my presenta- tion at the spring annual conference ofthe American As- sociation of Applied Linguistics in Portland, Oregon. I also wish to gratefully acknowledge my colleagues Alice Hadley and Douglas Kibbee for reading drafts of the manuscript and for providing invaluable feedback and suggestions for im- provement. I wish to acknowledge Fred Davidson and B. Kumara- vadivelu for having agreed to be outside reviewers.I am espe- cially grateful to Fred Davidson for his interest in my project. Among the people at Yale University Press I especially wish to thank are Mary Jane Peluso, for her encouragement and for her confidence in my project, and Annie Imbornoni, for her good humor and for her care and attention in editing my manuscript. Lastly,I owe my warmest and most sincere thanks to my wife,Andrea,for all that she has been,is,and will be for me.I dedicate this book to her,with love and gratitude. Processing French
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