摘要：The processing of nouns and verbs has been an area of intense interest among psycholinguists fordecades (see review by Vigliocco et al., 2010), for the obvious reasons that they are two major wordclasses across languages and convey the most basic information in communication. Word classeffects are often reflected in response latency and/or accuracy in naming tasks. However, single wordproduction does not resemble daily communication in which linguistic contexts may facilitate wordfinding. Previous studies directly comparing lexical retrieval between naming and narrative taskshave obtained mixed results (e.g. Berndt et al., 2002; Pashek & Tompkins, 2002), perhaps partly dueto the fact that nouns and verbs were rarely matched for relevant psycholinguistic variables. Thisstudy minimized the influence of confounding factors and employed neuropsychological data toexamine retrieval of nouns and verbs in confrontation naming and connected speech.
