Primary phonological planning units in spoken word production are language-specific: Evidence from an ERP study

Abstract It is widely acknowledged in Germanic languages that segments are the primary planning units at the phonological encoding stage of spoken word production. Mixed results, however, have been found in Chinese, and it is still unclear what roles syllables and segments play in planning Chinese s...

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Autores principales:	Jie Wang, Andus Wing-Kuen Wong, Suiping Wang, Hsuan-Chih Chen
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2017
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:4215bdc3a9b940889d2305304c3e0eae2021-12-02T11:53:12ZPrimary phonological planning units in spoken word production are language-specific: Evidence from an ERP study10.1038/s41598-017-06186-z2045-2322https://doaj.org/article/4215bdc3a9b940889d2305304c3e0eae2017-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06186-zhttps://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract It is widely acknowledged in Germanic languages that segments are the primary planning units at the phonological encoding stage of spoken word production. Mixed results, however, have been found in Chinese, and it is still unclear what roles syllables and segments play in planning Chinese spoken word production. In the current study, participants were asked to first prepare and later produce disyllabic Mandarin words upon picture prompts and a response cue while electroencephalogram (EEG) signals were recorded. Each two consecutive pictures implicitly formed a pair of prime and target, whose names shared the same word-initial atonal syllable or the same word-initial segments, or were unrelated in the control conditions. Only syllable repetition induced significant effects on event-related brain potentials (ERPs) after target onset: a widely distributed positivity in the 200- to 400-ms interval and an anterior positivity in the 400- to 600-ms interval. We interpret these to reflect syllable-size representations at the phonological encoding and phonetic encoding stages. Our results provide the first electrophysiological evidence for the distinct role of syllables in producing Mandarin spoken words, supporting a language specificity hypothesis about the primary phonological units in spoken word production.Jie WangAndus Wing-Kuen WongSuiping WangHsuan-Chih ChenNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2017)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Jie Wang Andus Wing-Kuen Wong Suiping Wang Hsuan-Chih Chen Primary phonological planning units in spoken word production are language-specific: Evidence from an ERP study
description	Abstract It is widely acknowledged in Germanic languages that segments are the primary planning units at the phonological encoding stage of spoken word production. Mixed results, however, have been found in Chinese, and it is still unclear what roles syllables and segments play in planning Chinese spoken word production. In the current study, participants were asked to first prepare and later produce disyllabic Mandarin words upon picture prompts and a response cue while electroencephalogram (EEG) signals were recorded. Each two consecutive pictures implicitly formed a pair of prime and target, whose names shared the same word-initial atonal syllable or the same word-initial segments, or were unrelated in the control conditions. Only syllable repetition induced significant effects on event-related brain potentials (ERPs) after target onset: a widely distributed positivity in the 200- to 400-ms interval and an anterior positivity in the 400- to 600-ms interval. We interpret these to reflect syllable-size representations at the phonological encoding and phonetic encoding stages. Our results provide the first electrophysiological evidence for the distinct role of syllables in producing Mandarin spoken words, supporting a language specificity hypothesis about the primary phonological units in spoken word production.
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author	Jie Wang Andus Wing-Kuen Wong Suiping Wang Hsuan-Chih Chen
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title	Primary phonological planning units in spoken word production are language-specific: Evidence from an ERP study
title_short	Primary phonological planning units in spoken word production are language-specific: Evidence from an ERP study
title_full	Primary phonological planning units in spoken word production are language-specific: Evidence from an ERP study
title_fullStr	Primary phonological planning units in spoken word production are language-specific: Evidence from an ERP study
title_full_unstemmed	Primary phonological planning units in spoken word production are language-specific: Evidence from an ERP study
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Primary phonological planning units in spoken word production are language-specific: Evidence from an ERP study

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