Does Horse Activate Mother? Processing Lexical Tone in Form Priming

Autor/in	Lee, Chao-Yang
Titel	Does Horse Activate Mother? Processing Lexical Tone in Form Priming
Quelle	In: Language and Speech, 50 (2007) 1, S.101-123 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8309
DOI	10.1177/00238309070500010501
Schlagwörter	Word Recognition; Mandarin Chinese; Languages; Language Processing; Priming; Intonation; Speech Communication; Graduate Students; Auditory Stimuli + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Worterkennung; Language; Sprache; Sprachverarbeitung; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Auditive Stimulation
Abstract	Lexical tone languages make up the majority of all known languages of the world, but the role of tone in lexical processing remains unclear. In the present study, four form priming experiments examined the role of Mandarin tones in constraining lexical activation and the time course of the activation. When a prime and a target were related directly in form (e.g., "lou3" "hug"--"lou2" "hall"), competitors that differed from the prime in tone failed to be activated, indicating the use of tonal information to distinguish between segmentally identical words. When a prime and a target were not form-related but were related through a third word that was not actually presented (e.g., "lou3" "hug"--"jian4zhu0" "building", where "lou3" is form-related to "lou2" "hall", which was semantically related to "jian4zhu0"), a mismatch in tone prevented activation of minimal tone pairs at 250ms interstimulus interval (ISI) but did not prevent activation at 50ms ISI. These results indicate that tonal information is used on-line to reduce the number of activated candidates, but does not prevent the minimal tone pairs from being activated in the early phase of lexical activation. (Contains 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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