Lexical tone in spoken word recognition: A view from Mandarin Chinese

2000 ◽  
Vol 108 (5) ◽  
pp. 2480-2480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao‐Yang Lee
2014 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 165-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianjun Huang ◽  
Jin-Chen Yang ◽  
Qin Zhang ◽  
Chunyan Guo

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 924-942 ◽  
Author(s):  
LEHER SINGH ◽  
ALOYSIA TAN ◽  
THILANGA D. WEWALAARACHCHI

AbstractChildren undergo gradual progression in their ability to differentiate correct and incorrect pronunciations of words, a process that is crucial to establishing a native vocabulary. For the most part, the development of mature phonological representations has been researched by investigating children's sensitivity to consonant and vowel variation, with a much lesser focus on lexical tones. The current study investigates sensitivity to lexical tones in word recognition with specific attention to role of perceptual salience. Chinese-speaking preschoolers were presented with familiar words that were correctly pronounced, substituted for a subtle tone variant (Tones 2 and 3), or substituted for a salient tone variant (Tones 1 and 4). Results demonstrated that subtle tone variants were mistakenly perceived as correct pronunciations and only salient tone variants were recognized as mispronunciations. Findings suggest that tone integration follows a more complex developmental course that previously concluded.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianjun Huang ◽  
Jin-Chen Yang ◽  
Ruohan Chang ◽  
Chunyan Guo

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Xian-Jun Huang ◽  
Kun lv ◽  
Jin-Chen Yang

Abstract. Word-initial phonological mismatches during spoken word recognition often elicit an event-related potential (ERP) component, namely, the phonological mapping negativity (PMN) in cross-modal priming studies or studies using sentence as context. However, recent studies also reported that a phonological P2 but not PMN has been observed for Mandarin Chinese spoken word recognition in unimodal word-matching and meaning-matching experiments, that is, both the prime and target words were presented auditorily. In the present study, the same pairs of disyllabic Mandarin Chinese words as in the prior unimodal studies were used as stimuli to investigate whether or not the phonological P2 effect is modulated by prime modality and can be replicated in a cross-modal design (i.e., written primes followed by spoken targets). Both the phonological and semantic relations between primes and targets were manipulated. Participants were instructed to judge whether the meaning of the two words were same or not. An enhanced PMN between 250 and 320 ms was elicited by word-initial phonological mismatches. In the later time window, centro-parietally distributed early N400 and late N400 were elicited in semantically unrelated conditions. The presence of PMN instead of P2 in the current study implies that ERP markers of word-initial phonological mismatches during spoken word recognition are modulated by the modality of primes at the level of phonological analysis.


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