Selection of freestanding and bound gender-marking morphemes in speech production: a review

Contains fulltext : 129855.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)In the past years, numerous studies have investigated the production of gender-marking morphemes like determiners or adjectival inflections. In this article we review the evidence that has accumulated thus far, focussing on the question of whether freestanding and bound gender-marking morphemes are selected according to one processing mechanism or according to different processing mechanisms. We conclude that there is no need for postulating different selection mechanisms and that selection by competition seems to play a role in the processing of both freestanding and bound gender-marking morphemes