Are there segmental and tonal effects on syntactic encoding? Evidence from structural priming in Mandarin

Autor: Sarah Bernolet, Robert J. Hartsuiker, Chi Zhang
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Linguistics and Language
Speech production
Segmental processing
INFORMATION
PHONOLOGICAL FACILITATION
Speech recognition
Social Sciences
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
LANGUAGE PRODUCTION
Mandarin Chinese
Languages and Literatures
050105 experimental psychology
Language and Linguistics
Lexical item
SPEECH PRODUCTION
CONSISTENCY
03 medical and health sciences
Structural priming
0302 clinical medicine
Artificial Intelligence
Psychology
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Phonological feedback
Language production
Tonal processing
05 social sciences
Linguistics
ORTHOGRAPHIC FACILITATION
language.human_language
REPRESENTATIONS
Lexical boost
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
AUDITORY WORD RECOGNITION
TIME-COURSE
language
Syllabic verse
CHINESE
Priming (psychology)
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Sentence
Zdroj: JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE
Journal of memory and language
ISSN: 0749-596X
1096-0821
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2021.104220
Popis: Numerous studies have established that speakers tend to form utterances by reusing previously experienced sentence structures (i.e., structural priming). It was also frequently found that the repetition of lexical items enhances structural priming (i.e., lexical boost). This facilitation effect occurs not only when there is a full overlap of verbs, but also when one level of the lexical representation (semantic or phonological representation) overlaps between the prime and the target. In the current study, we further scrutinize the phonological overlap effect on structural priming. We asked whether the phonological effect is independent of orthographic overlap, and whether it is driven by overlap of segments, tone, or both. In five structural priming experiments (three labbased, two web-based experiments), native Mandarin speakers were instructed to describe transitive pictures after receiving SVO or SOV "ba" prime sentences. In Experiment 1, prime and target verbs had lexical overlap (e. g., (sic)ttuo1, to take off]-(sic)ttuo1]), semantic overlap (e.g., (sic)txie4, to remove]-(sic)ttuo1]), phonological overlap (e. g., (sic)[ttuo1, to mop]-(sic)ttuo1]), or no overlap (e.g., (sic)[tda3, to beat]-(sic)ttuo1]) while similarities at other levels were carefully avoided. There were structural priming and lexical boost effects, but semantic or phonological overlap did not boost priming. In two further lab-based experiments and their large-scale online replications, verbs in prime and target had full phonological overlap (segmental + tonal, e.g., (sic)[ttuo1]-(sic)ttuo1]), syllabic overlap only (e.g., ttuo2, to carry]-(sic)ttuo1]), tonal overlap only ((sic)tcheng1, to weigh]-(sic)ttuo1]), or no overlap. All four experiments showed structural priming, which was boosted by full phonological overlap. The syllabic overlap exerted a significant facilitation effect on structural priming, whereas no tonal effect was found. Together, these results indicate that processing at the phonological level feeds back to syntactic encoding in sentence production, which further supports an interactive view of language production.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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