Tracking the time-course of spoken word recognition of Cantonese Chinese in sentence context: Evidence from eye movements

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作者
Yip, Michael C. W. [1 ]
机构
[1] Educ Univ Hong Kong, Dept Psychol, Tai Po, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
关键词
Spoken word recognition; Context effects; Cantonese ambiguous words; Eye-tracking; Lexical tone; WORKING-MEMORY; LEXICAL ACCESS; PHONOLOGICAL SIMILARITY; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; SEMANTIC CONTEXT; INFORMATION; MODELS; INHIBITION; AMBIGUITY; PARADIGM;
D O I
10.3758/s13423-023-02397-w
中图分类号
B841 [心理学研究方法];
学科分类号
040201 ;
摘要
In this study, we conducted an eye-tracking experiment to investigate the effects of sentence context and tonal information on spoken word recognition processes in Cantonese Chinese. We recruited 60 native Cantonese listeners to participate in the eye-tracking experiment. The target words (phonologically similar words) were manipulated to either (1) a congruent context or (2) an incongruent context in the experiment. The resulting eye-movement patterns in the incongruent context condition clearly revealed that (1) sentence context produced a garden-path effect in the initial stage of the spoken word recognition processes and then (2) the lexical tone of the word (bottom-up information) overrode the contextual effects to help listeners to discriminate between different similar-sounding words during lexical access. In conclusion, the patterns of eye-tracking data show the interactive processes between the lexical tone (an acoustic cue within a Cantonese word) and sentence context played in different phases to the spoken word recognition of Cantonese Chinese.
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页码:1131 / 1141
页数:11
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