The primacy of abstract syllables in Chinese word production.
The primacy of abstract syllables in Chinese word production.
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中文单词生产中抽象音节的首要地位。
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10.1037/a0039911
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2016-05
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Chen TM
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Chen JY;O'Séaghdha PG;Chen TM
越来越多的证据表明，音节在普通话单词生成的语音阶段起着主要和独特的作用。具体来说，音节在其他音系成分之前被选择，从而指导亚音节编码。汉语语音音节与词语表征的接近性保证了它们也会被词语感知自动激活。因此，与印欧语言相比，音节，但不一定是次音节成分，如初始辅音，可以在生产中感知启动。我们在两个掩蔽启动实验中验证了这一预测。为了分离源自启动词的相关语音激活，我们使用了单字屏蔽启动词，这些屏蔽启动词对应的音调和词汇意义总是不同于目标初始语素。相关启动词潜在地激活了目标单词的无调首音节或首辅音。为了强烈参与生产特定过程，我们使用图片作为双音节目标单词的提示。仅在音节共享条件下才观察到相对于不相关对照的促进作用。如果说有什么区别的话，那就是共用声母具有负效价，这可能表明在相似的共同激活的单词或音节之间存在竞争。这些发现证实了抽象音节是汉语单词生成过程中最先选择的近义词，音位段起次要作用的观点。
Convergent evidence suggests that syllables play a primary and distinctive role in the phonological phase of Mandarin Chinese word production. Specifically, syllables are selected before other phonological components and thus guide subsyllabic encoding. The proximity of phonological syllables to word representations in Chinese languages ensures that they are also activated automatically by word perception. Therefore, in contrast to Indo-European languages, syllables but not necessarily subsyllabic components such as initial consonants can be perceptually primed in production. We tested this prediction in two masked-priming experiments. To isolate relevant phonological activation originating in primes, we used single character masked primes whose corresponding tones and lexical meanings always differed from those of the targets’ first morphemes. Related primes potentially activated the atonal first syllables or the first consonants of target words. To strongly engage production-specific processes, we used pictures as prompts for disyllabic target words. Facilitation relative to unrelated controls was observed only in the syllable sharing condition. If anything, sharing of initial consonants had a negative valence, perhaps indicative of competition among similar co-activated words or syllables. These findings corroborate the view that abstract syllables are the first selected, proximate phonological units in Chinese word production, and that phonemic segments play a subordinate role.