Does horse activate mother? Processing lexical tone in form priming
Does horse activate mother? Processing lexical tone in form priming
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10.1177/00238309070500010501
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Lee, Chao-Yang
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作者：
Lee, Chao-Yang
词汇声调语言占世界上已知语言的大多数，但声调在词汇加工中的作用仍然不清楚。本研究通过四个形式启动实验考察了汉语声调对词汇激活的抑制作用及其激活的时间过程。当一个素数和一个目标在形式上直接相关时（例如，lou 3 'hug'-lou 2 'hall'），与主音不同的竞争者未能被激活，这表明使用音调信息来区分分段相同的单词。当一个启动和一个目标不是形式相关的，而是通过一个实际上没有呈现的第三个词（例如，lou 3 'hug'-jian 4 zhu 0 'building'，其中lou 3与lou 2 'hall'形式相关，lou 2 'hall'在语义上与jian 4 zhu 0相关），音调的不匹配阻止了在250 ms刺激间间隔（ISI）时最小音调对的激活，但没有阻止在50 ms ISI时的激活。这些结果表明，声调信息被用于在线，以减少激活的候选人的数量，但并没有阻止最小的声调对被激活的早期阶段的词汇激活。
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 250 ms interstimulus interval (ISI) but did not prevent activation at 50 ms 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.