Electrophysiological dynamics of Chinese phonology during visual word recognition in Chinese-English bilinguals.

ABSTRACT: Silent word reading leads to the activation of orthographic (spelling), semantic (meaning), as well as phonological (sound) information. For bilinguals, native language information can also be activated automatically when they read words in their second language. For example, when Chinese-English bilinguals read words in their second language (English), the phonology of the Chinese translations is automatically activated. Chinese phonology, however, consists of consonants and vowels (segmental) and tonal information. To what extent these two aspects of Chinese phonology are activated is yet unclear. Here, we used behavioural measures, event-related potentials and oscillatory EEG to investigate Chinese segmental and tonal activation during word recognition. Evidence of Chinese segmental act

SUBMITTER: Wen Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5931991 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature