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Qiao, Xiaomei; Shen, Liyao; Forster, Kenneth – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
Contradictory results have been found in Chinese as to whether subject relative clauses are easier to process than object relative clauses. One major disagreement concerns the region where the difficulty arises. In this study, a "maze" task was used to localise processing difficulty by requiring participants to make a choice between two…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Mandarin Chinese
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Zhang, Qingfang; Weekes, Brendan Stuart – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
The aim of this experiment was to investigate the time course of orthographic facilitation on picture naming in Chinese. We used a picture-word paradigm to investigate orthographic and phonological facilitation on monosyllabic spoken word production in native Mandarin speakers. Both the stimulus-onset asynchrony (SOA) and the picture-word…
Descriptors: Speech, Phonology, Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers
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Tong, Yunxia; Francis, Alexander L.; Gandour, Jackson T. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
The aim of this study was to examine processing interactions between segmental (consonant, vowel) and suprasegmental (tone) dimensions of Mandarin Chinese. Using a speeded classification paradigm, processing interactions were examined between each pair of dimensions. Listeners were asked to attend to one dimension while ignoring the variation…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Vowels, Word Recognition, Classification
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Janssen, Niels; Bi, Yanchao; Caramazza, Alfonso – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
Two picture naming experiments show that compound word production in Mandarin Chinese and in English is determined by the compound's whole-word frequency, and not by its constituent morpheme frequency. Four control experiments rule out that these results are caused by recognition or articulatory processes. These results are consistent with models…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Mandarin Chinese, Word Frequency, Language Acquisition
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Ye, Yun; Connine, Cynthia M. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1999
Reports the results of three experiments that used vowel and tone monitoring tasks to investigate the role of tone information in processing Mandarin. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Language Processing, Language Research
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Zhou, Xiaolin; Marslen-Wilson, William – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1994
Three experiments used the differential frequency effect as a diagnostic tool to investigate the mental representation of disyllabic compound words in Mandarin Chinese. The results indicated that, when both word frequency and morpheme frequency were held constant, high-frequency first syllables slowed responses to real words. (41 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Foreign Countries, Language Processing
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Zhou, Xiaolin; Marslen-Wilson, William – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Investigates the role of morphological structure in the representation and processing of Mandarin Chinese compounds. Results provide evidence against single-layer, morpheme-based models of the Chinese mental lexicon, pointing instead to a two-layer, whole-word and morphemic model (the Multi-Level Cluster Representation Model). (67 references)…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Associative Learning, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics