The Effect of Salience on Chinese Pun Comprehension: A Visual World Paradigm Study.

ABSTRACT: The present study adopted the printed-word visual world paradigm to investigate the salience effect on Chinese pun comprehension. In such an experiment, participants listen to a spoken sentence while looking at a visual display of four printed words (including a semantic competitor, a phonological competitor, and two unrelated distractors). Previous studies based on alphabetic languages have found robust phonological effects (participants fixated more at phonological competitors than distractors during the unfolding of the spoken target words), while controversy remains regarding the existence of a similar semantic effect. A recent Chinese study reported reliable semantic effects in two experiments using this paradigm, suggesting that Chinese participants could actively map the semantic in

SUBMITTER: Zheng W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7011777 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature