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Early access to lexical-level phonological representations of Mandarin word-forms
- 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.
Author details: | Jinxing YueORCiD, Kai-Uwe AlterORCiDGND, David HowardORCiD, Roelien BastiaanseORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2017.1290261 |
ISSN: | 2327-3798 |
ISSN: | 2327-3801 |
Title of parent work (English): | Language, cognition and neuroscience |
Subtitle (English): | evidence from auditory N1 habituation |
Publisher: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
Place of publishing: | Abingdon |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2017/02/22 |
Publication year: | 2017 |
Release date: | 2022/09/12 |
Tag: | Auditory N1; Mandarin Chinese; event-related potential; language; lexical access; short-term habituation; spoken word |
Volume: | 32 |
Issue: | 9 |
Number of pages: | 16 |
First page: | 1148 |
Last Page: | 1163 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Peer review: | Referiert |