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Constructing initial phonology in Mandarin Chinese: Syllabic or subsyllabic? A masked priming investigation

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Verdonschot, R. G., Lai, J., Chen, F., Tamaoka, K., & Schiller, N. O. (2015). Constructing initial phonology in Mandarin Chinese: Syllabic or subsyllabic? A masked priming investigation. Japanese Psychological Research, 57(1), 61-68. doi:10.1111/jpr.12064.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-E2BF-2
Abstract
Recent research has put forward the idea that Chinese speech production is governed by the syllable as the fundamental phonological unit. However, it may be that onset priming might be more difficult to obtain in Mandarin Chinese. Therefore, in this study, the degree of overlap between prime and target was increased from C to CV (i.e., extending beyond the phoneme) as well as whether primes and targets had an overlapping structure (CV vs. CVN). Subsyllabic priming effects were found (i.e., onset + vowel overlap but not purely onset overlap), contrasting with the claim that the syllable is the compulsory building block in the initial construction of Mandarin Chinese phonology.