Modeling of phonological encoding in spoken word production: From G ermanic languages to M andarin C hinese and J apanese

A Roelofs - Japanese Psychological Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
It is widely assumed that spoken word production in G ermanic languages like D utch and E
nglish involves a parallel activation of phonemic segments and metrical frames in memory …

Word frequency effect in written production: Evidence from ERPs and neural oscillations

C Wang, Q Zhang - Psychophysiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
It has been widely documented that word frequency (WF) modulates language processing in
various input and output modalities. WF effect has also been reported in the domain of …

Across the great divide: Proximate units at the lexical‐phonological interface

PG O'Séaghdha - Japanese Psychological Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Evidence that languages differ in the initial, proximate units of phonological encoding
presents a challenge to current theories of language production. The proximate units …

Seriality of semantic and phonological processes during overt speech in Mandarin as revealed by event-related brain potentials

X Zhu, MF Damian, Q Zhang - Brain and language, 2015 - Elsevier
How is information transmitted across semantic and phonological levels in spoken word
production? Recent evidence from speakers of Western languages such as English and …

The primacy of abstract syllables in Chinese word production.

JY Chen, PG O'Séaghdha, TM Chen - Journal of Experimental …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Convergent evidence suggests that syllables play a primary and distinctive role in the
phonological phase of Mandarin Chinese word production. Specifically, syllables are …

Parallel processing of semantics and phonology in spoken production: Evidence from blocked cyclic picture naming and EEG

C Feng, MF Damian, Q Qu - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Spoken language production involves lexical-semantic access and phonological encoding.
A theoretically important question concerns the relative time course of these two cognitive …

Processing morphologically complex words in second-language learners: The effect of proficiency

L Liang, B Chen - Acta psychologica, 2014 - Elsevier
The present study explored how the processing of morphologically complex words in
second-language (L2) learners changes as their proficiency increases. ERPs were recorded …

Syllables and phonemes as planning units in Mandarin Chinese spoken word production: Evidence from ERPs

Q Qu, C Feng, F Hou, MF Damian - Neuropsychologia, 2020 - Elsevier
Speakers of different languages might rely on differential phonological units when planning
spoken output. In the present experiment, we investigated the role of phonemes, as well as …

Syllables constitute proximate units for Mandarin speakers: Electrophysiological evidence from a masked priming task

Q Zhang, MF Damian - Psychophysiology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Languages may differ regarding the primary mental unit of phonological encoding in spoken
production, with models of speakers of Indo‐European languages generally assuming a …

Database of word-level statistics for Mandarin Chinese (DoWLS-MAN)

KD Neergaard, H Xu, JS German… - Behavior research methods, 2022 - Springer
In this article we present the Database of Word-Level Statistics for Mandarin Chinese
(DoWLS-MAN). The database addresses the lack of agreement in phonological syllable …