Do phonological dependencies affect the scope of phonological

Do phonological dependencies affect the scope of phonological advance planning? Emiel van den Hoven F. -Xavier Alario Audrey Bürki

How much of an utterance do speakers phonologically encode before they start articulating? The new airplane

Languages have different constraints on how far ahead speakers can plan while still producing a fluent utterance. For Det + Adj + N phrases, German speakers need to know the gender of the noun Das neue Flugzeug

Languages have different constraints on how far ahead speakers can plan while still producing a fluent utterance. French speakers additionally need to know the onset of the noun French: Masculine head Feminine head Onset [+V] Le nouvel avion La nouvelle ancre Onset [+C] Le nouveau camion La nouvelle cloche

Languages have different constraints on how far ahead speakers can plan while still producing a fluent utterance. (Though not for all prenominal adjectives) French: Masculine head Feminine head Onset [+V] Le joli avion La jolie ancre Onset [+C] Le joli camion La jolie cloche

We had German and French native speakers describe 2 -picture displays while we recorded their vocal responses and eye-movements

In addition, we presented phonologically (un)related distractors: phonological priming only expected when planning scope is large

distractor: “cassette“ le nouveau camion et le pirate (the new truck and the pirate)

Dependent variables Speech onset left picture gaze right picture

Dependent variables Speech onset left picture gaze right picture Gaze duration

Dependent variables Speech onset left picture gaze right picture Gaze duration Eye-speech lag

Results

French results Speech onsets were longer for variable than for invariant adjectives (but unexpectedly the difference was even larger for gaze durations)

Crosslinguistic results Crosslinguistic comparisons do suggest a larger planning scope for French speakers, but evidence is weak because of between-participant comparisons.