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- Title
Predicting phonological information in language comprehension: evidence from ERP representational similarity analysis and Chinese idioms.
- Authors
Wei, Wei; Huang, Zirui; Feng, Chen; Qu, Qingqing
- Abstract
Do comprehenders predict the meaning and even the phonological form of upcoming words during language comprehension? With a growing body of evidence suggesting that semantic representations may be predicted, the evidence for phonological prediction is less clear and largely derived from studies conducted in languages utilizing an alphabetic script. In this research, we aim to examine the prediction of phonological information in the processing of Chinese idioms through the use of ERP representational similarity analysis (RSA). The study utilizes four-character Chinese idioms, and phonological overlap was manipulated by varying the syllable at the idiom-final part between idiom pairs so that pairs of idioms share a syllable (i.e. within-pairs) or not (between-pairs). We quantified the similarity between patterns of neural activity of idioms for within- and between-pairs. RSA results revealed greater similarity in neural activity patterns for idioms within-pairs, compared with between-pairs, and critically this similarity effect was observed prior to the presentation of the phonological similarity, providing evidence for the pre-activation of upcoming phonological information, under circumstances that encourage predictive processing.
- Publication
Cerebral Cortex, 2023, Vol 33, Issue 15, p9367
- ISSN
1047-3211
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cercor/bhad209