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Adjective–noun order as representational structure: Native-language grammar influences perception of similarity and recognition memory
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Journal Article
Adjective–noun order as representational structure: Native-language grammar influences perception of similarity and recognition memory
2014
Overview
This article describes two experiments linking native-language grammar rules with implications for perception of similarity and recognition memory. In prenominal languages (e.g., English), adjectives usually precede nouns, whereas in postnominal languages (e.g., Portuguese), nouns usually precede adjectives. We explored the influence of such rules upon similarity judgments about, and recognition of, objects with multiple category attributes (one nominal attribute and one adjectival attribute). The results supported the hypothesized primacy effect of native-language word order such that nouns generally carried more weight for Portuguese speakers than for English speakers. This pattern was observed for judgments of similarity (i.e., Portuguese speakers tended to judge objects that shared a noun-designated attribute as more similar than did English speakers), as well as for false alarms in recognition memory (i.e., Portuguese speakers tended to falsely recognize more objects if they possessed a familiar noun attribute, relative to English speakers). The implications of such linguistic effects for the cognition of similarity and memory are discussed.
Publisher
Springer US,Springer,Springer Nature B.V
Subject
/ Adult
/ Behavioral Science and Psychology
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Color Perception - physiology
/ English
/ Form Perception - physiology
/ Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
/ Gender
/ Human
/ Humans
/ Language
/ Language Thought Relationship
/ Memory
/ Nouns
/ Portugal
/ Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
/ Psychology. Psychophysiology
