Syntactic processes in the production of noun phrases.

Two picture-word interference experiments investigated syntactic and lexical-semantic processes during the production of Dutch noun phrases of the form article + adjective + noun or adjective + noun. For both types of noun phrases, utterance onset latencies were longer when the distractor word and the target noun had different grammatical gender than when they had the same grammatical gender. Adjective distractors that were semantically related to the target adjectives led to longer utterance onset latencies for noun phrases of the form adjective+noun, but not for noun phrases of the form article + adjective + noun. The results are discussed in the framework of recent models of language production