Syllables are Retrieved before Segments in the Spoken Production of Mandarin Chinese: An ERP Study.

ABSTRACT: Languages may differ in terms of the functional units of word-form encoding used in spoken word production. It is widely accepted that segments are the primary units used in Indo-European languages. However, it is controversial what the functional units (syllables or segments) in Chinese spoken word production are. In the present study, Mandarin Chinese speakers named pictures while ignoring distractor words presented simultaneously, which shared atonal syllables, bodies or rhymes, or were unrelated with the name of the target pictures. Behavioral results showed that naming latencies in the 3 phonologically-related conditions were significantly shorter than those associated with the unrelated condition. EEG data indicated that the syllable-related condition modulated event-related potentia

SUBMITTER: Feng C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6692332 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature