Tonal and vowel information processing in Chinese spoken word recognition

Huang, Xianjun; Liu, Xin; Yang, Jin-Chen; Zhao, Quanwen; Zhou, Jianshe

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“…In a Chinese sentence comprehension task, target words containing rime violations (e.g., 观赚/kuan1 tʂuan4/ "look earn") elicited N400 and P600 of larger amplitudes compared with the congruent condition (e.g., 观众/kuan1 tʂuŋ4/ "audience"), while lexical tone violations (e.g., 观肿/kuan1 tʂuŋ3/ "look swelling") only elicited larger P600, indicating a comparatively later detection of lexical tone violations (Zou et al, 2020). Similar ERP patterns were also observed in the perception of Chinese idioms (Hu et al, 2012;X. Huang et al, 2018) and Chinese classic poems (Li et al, 2014).…”

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Integral perception, but separate processing: The perceptual normalization of lexical tones and vowels

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“…The results showed that the vowel mismatch elicited an earlier negative component and a larger N400 effect than the tone mismatch. This finding suggests that the role of tone is weaker than that of vowels even in constraining idiomatic contexts (Huang et al, 2018).…”

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“…Chinese significantly differs from these languages in that the lexical items have tones. Mandarin Chinese has four different types of lexical tone-namely, high-level, mid-rising, low-dipping, and falling tones (Huang, Liu, Yang, Zhao, & Zhou, 2018;Malins & Joanisse, 2012). One syllable plus different lexical tones can be used to refer to different morphemes.…”

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“…The present study also aims to investigate whether the role of lexical tone will be modulated by constraining sentence context. As reviewed above, evidence shows that in idioms, tonal information is prioritized over segmental information; however, the findings are inconsistent across different studies (Hu et al, 2012;Huang et al, 2018;Liu & Samuel, 2007;Ye & Connine, 1999). In addition, in natural language comprehension, word recognition occurs more often in sentences than in idioms.…”

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The role of tonal information during spoken-word recognition in Chinese: Evidence from a printed-word eye-tracking study

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Wang³

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Two experiments were conducted to investigate the extent to which the lexical tone can affect spoken-word recognition in Chinese using a printed-word paradigm. Participants were presented with a visual display of four words-namely, a target word (e.g., 象限, xiang4xian4, "quadrant"), a tone-consistent phonological competitor (e.g., 相册, xiang4ce4, "photo album"), or a tone-inconsistent phonological competitor (e.g., 香菜, xiang1cai4, "coriander"), and two unrelated distractors. Simultaneously, they were asked to listen to a spoken target word presented in isolation (Experiment 1) or embedded in neutral/predictive sentence contexts (Experiment 2), and then click on the target word on the screen. Results showed significant phonological competitor effects (i.e., the fixation proportion on the phonological competitor was higher than that on the distractors) under both tone conditions. Specifically, a larger phonological competitor effect was observed in the tone-consistent condition than in the toneinconsistent condition when the spoken word was presented in isolation and the neutral sentence contexts. This finding suggests a partial role of lexical tone in constraining spoken-word recognition. However, when embedded in a predictive sentence context, the phonological competitor effect was only observed in the tone-consistent condition and absent in the tone-inconsistent condition. This result indicates that the predictive sentence context can strengthen the role of lexical tone.Keywords Lexical tone . Spoken-word recognition . Sentence context . Chinese . Eye tracking Most spoken-word recognition models agree that with the unfolding of spoken stimuli, more than one word candidate sharing partial phonemic information with the target will be shortly activated for competition (Marslen-Wilson & Tyler, 1980;McClelland & Elman, 1986). For example, when listening to a spoken word "beaker", lexical candidates sharing a similar initial syllable (e.g., "beetle", "beef", "bee") will be

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“…The benefit of the patient’s language function in this program may be related to the characteristics of the training material. Chinese idioms are harmonious, with level and oblique deployment and a strong sense of rhythm [ 21 , 22 ]. This rhythm of idioms can be used to prepare for the rapid start of pronunciation by adjusting the speed of pronunciation more clearly similar to Melodic Intonation Therapy [ 23 ].…”

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Effect of an extension speech training program based on Chinese idioms in patients with post-stroke non-fluent aphasia: A randomized controlled trial

Sun

Zhang

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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Background Chinese idioms have potential to act as preliminary training material in studies on post-stroke aphasia. Objective To explore an extension speech training program that takes Chinese idioms as context and expands them into characters, words, sentences and paragraphs and evaluate the effects of this program in patients with post-stroke non-fluent aphasia. Methods This was a randomized controlled trial. We recruited patients with post-stroke non-fluent aphasia from the Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University from January 2021 to January 2022. Participants were randomly assigned to group I and group II. Patients in group I had treatment with extension speech training based on Chinese idioms, and those in group II had treatment with conventional speech rehabilitation training. The training period in both groups was 40 min daily for 2 weeks. Results A total of 70 patients (group I, n = 34; and group II, n = 36) completed the trial and were analyzed according to protocol. There were no significant differences in baseline values between both groups. After intervention, the scores of oral expression, comprehension, and reading in the Aphasia Battery Of Chinese scale and the scores of the Comprehensive Activities of Daily Living questionnaire significantly improved in both groups (P <0.05), with group I benefiting more (P <0.05). Conclusion This extension speech training program based on Chinese idioms can improve the language function and daily communication ability of the patients with post-stroke non-fluent aphasia. Trial registration Chinese Clinical Trial Registry ChiCTR2000031825.

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Tonal and vowel information processing in Chinese spoken word recognition

Cited by 10 publications

References 18 publications

Integral perception, but separate processing: The perceptual normalization of lexical tones and vowels

Integral perception, but separate processing: The perceptual normalization of lexical tones and vowels

The role of tonal information during spoken-word recognition in Chinese: Evidence from a printed-word eye-tracking study

Effect of an extension speech training program based on Chinese idioms in patients with post-stroke non-fluent aphasia: A randomized controlled trial

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