White, J. and Chiu, F. (2017) Disentangling phonological well-formedness and attestedness: an ERP study of onset clusters in English. Acta Linguistica Academica, 64(4), pp. 513-537. (doi: 10.1556/2062.2017.64.4.2)
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Abstract
Disentangling the roles of phonological well-formedness and lexical attestedness in phonotactic processing has proven challenging. In this study, we present results from a passive listening ERP study showing that English speakers exhibit distinct neural responses to CCVC nonce words according to the phonological well-formedness and attestedness (in English) of the onset cluster. Clusters with poor sonority sequencing evoked an N400 effect compared to those without poor sonority sequencing, regardless of whether the well-formed clusters were attested in English. In contrast, unattested clusters, regardless of whether they were well-formed or ill-formed in terms of sonority sequencing, evoked a late positivity compared to attested clusters. The results suggest that listeners first perform a phonological analysis on potential words before submitting them to a lexical search.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Chiu, Dr Faith |
| Authors: | White, J., and Chiu, F. |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Language and Linguistics |
| Journal Name: | Acta Linguistica Academica |
| Publisher: | Akadémiai Kiadó |
| ISSN: | 2559-8201 |
| ISSN (Online): | 2560-1016 |
| Published Online: | 01 December 2017 |
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