TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yue, Jinxing
A1  - Alter, Kai-Uwe
A1  - Howard, David
A1  - Bastiaanse, Roelien
T1  - Early access to lexical-level phonological representations of Mandarin word-forms
BT  - evidence from auditory N1 habituation
JF  - Language, cognition and neuroscience
N2  - An auditory habituation design was used to investigate whether lexical-level phonological representations in the brain can be rapidly accessed after the onset of a spoken word. We studied the N1 component of the auditory event-related electrical potential, and measured the amplitude decrements of N1 associated with the repetition of a monosyllabic tone word and an acoustically similar pseudo-word in Mandarin Chinese. Effects related to the contrastive onset consonants were controlled for by introducing two control words. We show that repeated pseudo-words consistently elicit greater amplitude decrements in N1 than real words. Furthermore, this lexicality effect is free from sensory fatigue or rapid learning of the pseudo-word. These results suggest that a lexical-level phonological representation of a spoken word can be accessed as early as 110ms after the onset of the word-form.
KW  - Auditory N1
KW  - short-term habituation
KW  - spoken word
KW  - Mandarin Chinese
KW  - language
KW  - event-related potential
KW  - lexical access
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2017.1290261
SN  - 2327-3798
SN  - 2327-3801
VL  - 32
IS  - 9
SP  - 1148
EP  - 1163
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -