In the experiments outlined in this article, the authors investigate lexical access processes in language production. In their earlier work, T. Pechmann and D. Zerbst (2002) reported evidence for grammatical category constraints in a picture–word interference task. Although grammatical category information was not activated when subjects produced bare noun descriptions of simple objects, a robust effect arose when the target word had to be embedded in a syntactic frame. The current experiments demonstrate that compilation of a simple noun phrase (NP) yields word class effects in picture–word interference experiments in the same time frame as that generally observed for semantic processing. Most significantly, the effect emerges both in German and English with very similar profiles. On these grounds, it is implausible that the effect depends on syntactic gender activation, because such constraints are lacking in the English language version of the experiments.
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机译：在本文概述的实验中，作者研究了语言产生中的词汇访问过程。 T. Pechmann和D. Zerbst（2002）在他们较早的工作中报告了图片词干扰任务中语法类别约束的证据。尽管当对象对简单对象进行裸露的名词描述时语法类别信息没有被激活，但是当目标词必须嵌入句法框架时，就会产生鲁棒的效果。当前的实验表明，简单的名词短语（NP）的编译会在图片-单词干扰实验中在与语义处理通常观察到的相同时间范围内产生单词类效应。最重要的是，效果在德语和英语中都非常相似。基于这些理由，效果取决于语法上的性别激活是令人难以置信的，因为在英语版本的实验中缺少这种限制。
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