Differential processing of consonants and vowels in the auditory modality: A cross-linguistic study
Differential processing of consonants and vowels in the auditory modality: A cross-linguistic study
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jml.2013.12.001
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发表时间：
2014-04-01
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Nazzi, Thierry
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作者：
Delle Luche, Claire;Poltrock, Silvana;Nazzi, Thierry
Nespor、Pena 和 Mehler (2003) 提出辅音在限制词汇访问方面比元音更重要，New、Araujo 和 Nazzi (2008) 在视觉启动实验中证明，共享辅音的素数 (jalu-JOLI) 有助于词汇访问，而共享元音的素数则不然 (vobi-JOLI)。本研究探讨这种不对称是否可以扩展到听觉模式，以及语言输入是否如发展研究所表明的那样发挥着关键作用。我们的实验测试了法语和英语作为目标语言，结果表明辅音信息比语音信息更能促进词汇决策，这表明辅音优势与语言的分布特性无关。然而，在特定情况下，元音对于抑扬格英语 CVCV 或法语 CVCV 单词也有辅助作用。这种效应与素数和目标素（这里是最后的元音）之间的韵律的保留有关，这表明除了辅音信息和辅音骨架信息之外，韵律是听觉语音启动和口语单词识别的重要单位。 (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. 保留所有权利。
Following the proposal by Nespor, Pena, and Mehler (2003) that consonants are more important in constraining lexical access than vowels, New, Araujo, and Nazzi (2008) demonstrated in a visual priming experiment that primes sharing consonants (jalu-JOLI) facilitate lexical access while primes sharing vowels do not (vobi-JOLI). The present study explores if this asymmetry can be extended to the auditory modality and whether language input plays a critical role as developmental studies suggest. Our experiments tested French and English as target languages and showed that consonantal information facilitated lexical decision to a greater extent than vocalic information, suggesting that the consonant advantage is independent of the language's distributional properties. However, vowels are also facilitatory, in specific cases, with iambic English CVCV or French CVCV words. This effect is related to the preservation of the rhyme between the prime and the target (here, the final vowel), suggesting that the rhyme, in addition to consonant information and consonant skeleton information is an important unit in auditory phonological priming and spoken word recognition. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.