Research article summary (published 30 May 2009):

The contribution of orthography to spoken word production: evidence from Mandarin Chinese.

Full Abstract

A recent debate in the language production literature concerns the influence of a word's orthographic information on spoken word production and the extent to which this influence is modulated by task context. In the present study, Mandarin Chinese participants produced sets of words that shared orthography (O+P-), phonology (O-P+), or orthography and phonology (O+P+), or were unrelated (O-P-), in the context of a reading, associative naming, or picture naming task. Shared phonology yielded facilitation effects in all three tasks, but only in the reading task was this phonological effect modulated by shared orthography. Shared orthography by itself (O+P-) revealed inhibitory effects in reading, but not in associative naming or in picture naming. These results suggest that a word's orthography information influences spoken word production only in tasks that rely heavily on orthographic information.

Author information

Author/s: Bi, Yanchao (Y); Wei, Tao (T); Janssen, Niels (N); Han, Zaizhu (Z);

Affiliation: Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Psychonomic bulletin & review (Psychon Bull Rev), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2009-Jun; vol 16 (issue 3) : pp 555-60

Dates: Created 2009/05/19; Completed 2009/07/20;

PMID: 19451384, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 8/21/2009, IMS Date: )

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China Humans Language Paired-Associate Learning Pattern Recognition, Visual

Phonetics Reaction Time Reading Semantics Speech

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