Syllable or Phoneme? A Mouse-Tracking Investigation of Phonological Units in Mandarin Chinese and English Spoken Word Recognition

Autor/inn/en	Lin, Yu-Cheng; Lin, Pei-Ying; Yeh, Li-Hao
Titel	Syllable or Phoneme? A Mouse-Tracking Investigation of Phonological Units in Mandarin Chinese and English Spoken Word Recognition
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49 (2023) 1, S.130-176 (47 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Lin, Yu-Cheng) ORCID (Lin, Pei-Ying) ORCID (Yeh, Li-Hao)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0001128
Schlagwörter	Phonemes; Word Recognition; Mandarin Chinese; English; Native Speakers; Speech Communication; Phonology; Bilingualism; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Interference (Language); Monolingualism; Comparative Analysis; Syllables; Reaction Time; Task Analysis; Foreign Countries; Language Proficiency; Surveys; Self Evaluation (Individuals); Undergraduate Students; Computer Peripherals; Error Patterns; Written Language; Orthographic Symbols; Canada; Taiwan; Woodcock Munoz Language Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fonem; Worterkennung; English language; Englisch; Muttersprachler; Fonologie; Bilingualismus; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Silbe; Reaktionsvermögen; Aufgabenanalyse; Ausland; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Fehlertyp; Geschriebene Sprache; Kanada
Abstract	Previous studies on spoken word production have shown that native English speakers used phoneme-sized units (e.g., a word-initial phoneme, C) to produce English words, and native Mandarin Chinese speakers employed syllable-sized units (e.g., a word-initial consonant and vowel, CV) as phonological encoding units in Chinese. With spoken word production, although spoken word recognition is a fundamental language skill of human beings, it is unknown whether a Chinese-English bilingual listener can adjust the phonological unit sizes depending on the language used. Using four mouse-tracking spoken word recognition experiments, participants listened to spoken words (either presented in English or Chinese) while viewing a display of two written words. In Experiment 1, Chinese-English bilinguals experienced a larger phonological competition in the CV condition than the control condition, indicating that they recruited syllables when listening to Chinese monosyllabic words. Experiment 2 extended the results of Experiment 1 with a set of Chinese disyllabic words and further revealed the temporal distribution of syllable overlap of a spoken word constrains phonological competition. In Experiment 3, Chinese-English bilinguals exhibited a greater phonological competition in both CV and C conditions that mirrored those reported with English monolinguals in Experiment 4. Our results across experiments demonstrated that Chinese-English bilinguals employed both phonemes and syllables to recognize English spoken words but exclusively relied on syllables to recognize Chinese words, suggesting that there is flexibility in selecting phonological units when recognizing spoken words in the two languages. Implications for models of monolingual and bilingual spoken recognition are also discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01