The flexibility and representational nature of phonological prediction in listening comprehension: Evidence from the visual world paradigm

被引:4
作者
Zhao, Zitong [1 ,2 ]
Ding, Jinfeng [1 ,2 ]
Wang, Jiayu [1 ,2 ]
Chen, Yiya [3 ,4 ]
Li, Xiaoqing [1 ,2 ,5 ]
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, CAS Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R China
[3] Leiden Univ, Ctr Linguist, Leiden, Netherlands
[4] Leiden Inst Brain & Cognit, Leiden, Netherlands
[5] Jiangsu Normal Univ, Jiangsu Collaborat Innovat Ctr Language Abil, Xuzhou, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
phonological prediction; visual world paradigm; eye-tracking; speech comprehension; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION; INFORMATION;
D O I
10.1017/langcog.2023.38
中图分类号
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要
Using the visual world paradigm with printed words, this study investigated the flexibility and representational nature of phonological prediction in real-time speech processing. Native speakers of Mandarin Chinese listened to spoken sentences containing highly predictable target words and viewed a visual array with a critical word and a distractor word on the screen. The critical word was manipulated in four ways: a highly predictable target word, a homophone competitor, a tonal competitor, or an unrelated word. Participants showed a preference for fixating on the homophone competitors before hearing the highly predictable target word. The predicted phonological information waned shortly but was re-activated later around the acoustic onset of the target word. Importantly, this homophone bias was observed only when participants were completing a 'pronunciation judgement' task, but not when they were completing a 'word judgement' task. No effect was found for the tonal competitors. The task modulation effect, combined with the temporal pattern of phonological pre-activation, indicates that phonological prediction can be flexibly generated by top-down mechanisms. The lack of tonal competitor effect suggests that phonological features such as lexical tone are not independently predicted for anticipatory speech processing.
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页码:481 / 504
页数:24
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