Tonal and syllabic encoding in overt Cantonese Chinese speech production: An ERP study.

ABSTRACT: This study was conducted to investigate how syllables and lexical tones are processed in Cantonese speech production using the picture-word interference task with concurrent recording of event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Cantonese-speaking participants were asked to name aloud individually presented pictures and ignore an accompanying auditory word distractor. The target and distractor either shared the same word-initial syllable with the same tone (Tonal-Syllable related), the same word-initial syllable without the same tone (Atonal-Syllable related), the same tone only (Tone alone related), or were phonologically unrelated. Participants' naming responses were faster, relative to an unrelated control, when the target and distractor shared the same tonal- or atonal-syllable but null e

SUBMITTER: Wong AW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10723706 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature