The fundamental phonological unit of Japanese word production: An EEG study using the picture-word interference paradigm

Verdonschot, Rinus G.; Tokimoto, Shingo; Miyaoka, Yayoi

doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2019.02.004

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“…In other languages, however, speakers may not retrieve phonological information in a phonemic fashion. For example, in Chinese speakers retrieve phonological information in a syllabic fashion (Chen & Chen, 2013;Chen et al, 2002;O'Seaghdha et al, 2010;You et al, 2012), and in Japanese speakers plan phonological information based on moras (Kureta et al, 2006;Verdonschot et al, 2011Verdonschot et al, , 2015Verdonschot et al, , 2019. Therefore, the phoneme, syllable, and mora have been considered as the primary phonological preparation (PP) unit (or proximate unit/functional phonological unit in some literature) in SWP in English, Chinese, and Japanese, respectively.…”

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Phonological Preparation in Korean: Phoneme, or Syllable or Another Unit?

Wang

Kim

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With three experiments, the present study investigated the primary phonological preparation (PP) unit in spoken word production in Korean. Adopting the form preparation paradigm, 23 native Korean speakers named pictures in homogenous or heterogenous lists. In homogenous lists, the names of the pictures shared the same initial phoneme (Experiment 1), initial consonant + vowel (i.e., CV) body (Experiment 2), or initial consonant + vowel + consonant (CVC) syllable (Experiment 3); and in heterogenous lists, the names did not share any phonological components systematically. Compared to naming pictures in heterogenous lists, participants’ naming speed was significantly faster when the initial body or the initial syllable of target names was shared. However, this form preparation effect was not shown in Experiment 1, when only the initial phoneme was shared. These results suggested that the body serves as the primary PP unit in Korean, that is, native Korean speakers tend to plan spoken words in a body–coda fashion, probably due to a joint contribution from the strong prevalence of the CV structure and early literacy instructional approach.

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Phonological Preparation in Korean: Phoneme, or Syllable or Another Unit?

Wang

Kim

et al. 2021

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“…First, we do not believe that the present results imply that the phonological unit size in Japanese word production is the phoneme. Previous studies have repeatedly shown that native Japanese speakers do not employ a phonemic phonological unit (e.g., Ida, Nakayama, & Lupker, 2015;Kureta et al, 2006;Verdonschot et al, 2011;Verdonschot, Tokimoto, & Miyaoka, 2019), unless they are highly proficient Japanese-English bilinguals and English words are used as stimuli (Nakayama et al, 2016). In addition, although Kureta et al (2015) also reported a phoneme-based form preparation effect using the associative-cuing task, they were likely correct in suggesting that the effect reflected a strategy employed by their participants, rather than that the Japanese phonological unit is the phoneme.…”

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Orthographic properties of distractors do influence phonological Stroop effects: Evidence from Japanese Romaji distractors

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In attempting to understand mental processes, it is important to use a task that appropriately reflects the underlying processes being investigated. Recently, Verdonschot and Kinoshita (Memory & Cognition, 46, 410-425, 2018) proposed that a variant of the Stroop task-the "phonological Stroop task"-might be a suitable tool for investigating speech production. The major advantage of this task is that the task is apparently not affected by the orthographic properties of the stimuli, unlike other, commonly used, tasks (e.g., associative-cuing and word-reading tasks). The viability of this proposal was examined in the present experiments by manipulating the script types of Japanese distractors. For Romaji distractors (e.g., "kushi"), colornaming responses were faster when the initial phoneme was shared between the color name and the distractor than when the initial phonemes were different, thereby showing a phoneme-based phonological Stroop effect (Experiment 1). In contrast, no such effect was observed when the same distractors were presented in Katakana (e.g., "くし"), replicating Verdonschot and Kinoshita's original results (Experiment 2). A phoneme-based effect was again found when the Katakana distractors used in Verdonschot and Kinoshita's original study were transcribed and presented in Romaji (Experiment 3). Because the observation of a phonemic effect directly depended on the orthographic properties of the distractor stimuli, we conclude that the phonological Stroop task is also susceptible to orthographic influences.

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“…Sound tones are studied by neurolinguists, such as B.D. Zinszer and P. Chen [9], T. Xia and L. Mo [10], R.G.Verdonschot and Y. Miyaoka [11].…”

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Linguistic and Psychological Aspects of Universal Sound Symbolism Studies

Nikroshkina

2019

Proceedings of the Internation Conference on "Humanities and Social Sciences: Novations, Problems, Prospects" (HSSNPP 2019)

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The article deals with the problem of universality of sound symbolism. It aims to give a comprehensive account of theoretical and experimental research of iconicity within separate languages as well as cross-linguistic sound symbolism. The work provides results of psychological and psycholinguistic research into the phenomenon of sound symbolism. Keywords-universal sound symbolism, iconicity, psycholonguistic experiment, synesthesiaThere are numerous examples of sound symbolism in African languages: high-pitched words denote something small while low-pitched words stand for some large things in the Sudanese language. High-pitched sounds are also used to denote long distances and high speeds. Low-pitched sounds

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The fundamental phonological unit of Japanese word production: An EEG study using the picture-word interference paradigm

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Phonological Preparation in Korean: Phoneme, or Syllable or Another Unit?

Phonological Preparation in Korean: Phoneme, or Syllable or Another Unit?

Orthographic properties of distractors do influence phonological Stroop effects: Evidence from Japanese Romaji distractors

Linguistic and Psychological Aspects of Universal Sound Symbolism Studies

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