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Context Effects and Spoken Word Recognition of Chinese: An Eye‐Tracking Study
Author(s) -
Yip Michael C. W.,
Zhai Mingjun
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.498
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1551-6709
pISSN - 0364-0213
DOI - 10.1111/cogs.12570
Subject(s) - sentence , homophone , mandarin chinese , context (archaeology) , speech recognition , eye tracking , word recognition , computer science , word (group theory) , sentence processing , eye movement , psychology , natural language processing , linguistics , artificial intelligence , reading (process) , paleontology , philosophy , biology
This study examined the time‐course of context effects on spoken word recognition during Chinese sentence processing. We recruited 60 native Mandarin listeners to participate in an eye‐tracking experiment. In this eye‐tracking experiment, listeners were told to listen to a sentence carefully, which ended with a Chinese homophone, and look at different visual probes (Chinese characters or different line‐drawing pictures) presented concurrently on the computer screen naturally. Different types of context and probe types were manipulated in the experiment. The results showed that (1) preceding sentence context had an early effect on spoken word recognition processes and (2) phonological information of the distracters had only a negligible effect on the spoken word recognition processes. Finally, the patterns of eye‐tracking results seemed to favor an interactive approach in spoken word recognition.