Paper Info
Title
Phonological abstraction in processing lexical-tone variation: evidence from a learning paradigm.
Abstract
There is a growing consensus that the mental lexicon contains both abstract and word-specific acoustic information. To investigate their relative importance for word recognition, we tested to what extent perceptual learning is word specific or generalizable to other words. In an exposure phase, participants were divided into two groups; each group was semantically biased to interpret an ambiguous Mandarin tone contour as either tone1 or tone2. In a subsequent test phase, the perception of ambiguous contours was dependent on the exposure phase: Participants who heard ambiguous contours as tone1 during exposure were more likely to perceive ambiguous contours as tone1 than participants who heard ambiguous contours as tone2 during exposure. This learning effect was only slightly larger for previously encountered than for not previously encountered words. The results speak for an architecture with prelexical analysis of phonological categories to achieve both lexical access and episodic storage of exemplars.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01140.x
COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Speech perception,Lexical tone,Mandarin Chinese,Phonological abstraction,Episodic models
Tone contour,Mental lexicon,Word recognition,Perceptual learning,Cognitive psychology,Psychology,Lexicon,Speech perception,Phonology,Linguistics,Perception
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
35
1.0
0364-0213
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.94
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Holger Mitterer16812.24
Yiya Chen26512.19
Xiao-lin Zhou3387.43