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ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2024

Facilitation effect of token syllable frequency in Chinese spoken word production.

Zhiyun Wang, YuChen Jiang, Qingfang Zhang

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Zhiyun WangDepartment of Psychology, Renmin University of China, 59 Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100872, People's Republic of China.
YuChen JiangDepartment of Psychology, Renmin University of China, 59 Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100872, People's Republic of China.
Qingfang ZhangDepartment of Psychology, Renmin University of China, 59 Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100872, People's Republic of China. qingfang.zhang@ruc.edu.cn.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China 32171055the foundation of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China 21YJA190011the Key Project from National Language Commissions ZDI145-6
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Abstract

Syllable frequency effects in spoken word production have been interpreted as evidence that speakers store syllable-sized motor programmes for phonetic encoding in alphabetic languages such as English or Dutch. However, the cognitive mechanism underlying the syllable frequency effect in Chinese spoken word production remains unknown. To investigate the locus of the syllable frequency effect in spoken Chinese, this study used a picture-word interference (PWI) task in which participants were asked to name the picture while ignoring the distractor word. The design included two variables: the syllable frequency of the target words (high vs. low) and the phonological relationships between distractor and target words (shared atonic syllable or not; related vs. unrelated). We manipulated mixed token and type syllable frequency in Experiment 1, and token syllable frequency but controlled type syllable frequency in Experiment 2. The results showed a facilitation effect of mixed syllable frequency and a similar facilitation effect of token syllable frequency. Importantly, the syllable frequency effect was found to be independent of the phonological facilitation effect. These results suggest that token syllable frequency played a dominant role in the observed facilitation effect, providing evidence that the syllable frequency effect arises in the phonetic encoding of Chinese spoken word production.

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PhoneticsSpeechAdultChinaEast Asian PeopleFemaleHumansLanguageMalePattern Recognition, VisualPsycholinguisticsYoung AdultPhonological facilitation effectPicture-word interference taskSyllable frequency effectToken syllable frequency

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