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10. 溝通性
✤ garden path sentences
✤ The horse raced past the barn. ⾺馬跑過穀倉
✤
The horse raced past the barn fell. >> The horse that raced past the barn fell
✤ 將軍將軍了
✤ [ ][將軍verb][將軍noun] [了particle]
✤ [將軍noun/Topic] [將軍verb] [了particle]
✤ 將軍將軍將軍了
✤ [將軍noun][將軍verb][將軍noun] [了particle]
✤ 將軍被將軍了
13. 語⾔言理解 (⼜⼝口語)
Acoustic Sublexical Units
/b/
/la//a/
/l/ /p/
/ip/
Speech Perception
• Categorization of acoustic input into sublexical units.
Lexicon
Word Recognition
• Identification of target word from active sublexical units.
14. – Vocal cords: vibrations create a fundamental plus harmonics
– Articulation: Vocal track is a changing resonance cavity
20. Categorical perception of phonemes
✤ Liberman et al. (1957)
✤ Speech synthesizer creates continuum of artificial syllable
that differ in the place of articulation of one phoneme
✤ Subjects placed syllables into three categories (/b/, /d/, /
g/)
Ba Da Ga
22. categorical perception and
language experience
✤ Zhang et al. (2005)
✤ Japanese listeners were less sensitive to the phonemic /r–l/ difference than American
listeners.
✤ For the /b–w/ continuum, there were no significant between group differences in
identification.
23. Categorical perception of lexical
tones
fundamental frequency contours of
Mandarin Chinese tonal stimuli (Xu, 1997).
F0 patterns of the tonal continuum
from Tone 2 to Tone 4 (Xi et al., 2010). Normal adults (Xi et al., 2010).
Children with or without
dyslexia (Zhang et al., 2012).
24. parsing/ segmentation
✤ If you set up the wrong cohort, how do you recover?
✤ e.g. dragedy for tragedy
✤ Misalignment problem
The sky is falling!
This guy is falling!
or
ThesKyisfalling!
41. ✤ 雙路徑理論與 PDP 理論的爭議仍在持續中。︒
✤ 誰對誰錯似乎不太重要,因為兩個陣營都遇上⼤大麻煩
Word
Frequency
Contextual
Diversity
semantic
distinctive-
ness
42. • Adelman et al. (2006, Psychological Science)
– Contextual Diversity
• Counting the number of passages (documents) in a
corpus that contain that word.
– Sinica Corpus 4.0
– Sinica COSPRO
– ⼩小學課本
43.
44. • Adelman et al. (2006)
– If neither time nor context changes substantially,
there may be no benefit of repetition at all
(Verkoeijen, Rikers, & Schmidt, 2004).
– If the memory for words that subserves word
recognition operates in the same fashion, then
the effect of repetitions (word frequency) will
be diminished or eliminated when these
repetitions occur in the same context.
45.
46.
47. Regression analyses
• Response times:
–character naming task (Chang et al., in press)
–character decision task (Lee et al., 2015)
–picture naming task (Bates et al., 2003)
• Corpus:
–Character frequency
• Sinica Corpus
• Liu et al. (1975)
–Contextual diversity (CD): Sinica Corpus
48.
49. ✤ 不只理論基礎,傳統⼼心理語⾔言學的「典範」也正在翻轉
中...
✤ Conventional Approach: Factorial design
✤ Item variables are manipulated on a relatively small
set of items (typically 10 to 20 items per condition)
✤ Effects of these variables on the speed and accuracy
of lexical decision and/or naming performance are
measured.
50. Limitations of Factorial Design
✤ Balota et al. (2004)
• It is difficult to select a set of items that only vary on one
dimension, while controlling the myriad of variables that have been
identified in the literature (Cutler, 1981).
• Implicit knowledge by the researcher could bias the selection of
words for an experiment (Forster 2000).
51. ✤ Balota et al. (2004)
• Large-scale regression studies
• Speeded visual word naming and lexical decision performance are
reported for 2,428 words for 60 adults
52. Chinese Psycholinguistic
Database
✤ Normal adults’ response to 3000+ Chinese characters:
✤ Naming task
✤ Chang, Y.-N., Hsu, C.-H., Tsai, J.-L., Chen, C.-L., & Lee, C.-Y. (2016). The
Psycholinguistic Database for Chinese Character Naming. Behavior
Research Methods.
✤ Lexical decision task
✤ Lee, C.-Y., Hsu, C.-H., Chang, Y.-N., Chen, W.-F., & Chao, P.-C. (2015). The
feedback consistency effect in Chinese character recognition: Evidence
from a psycholinguistic norm. Language and Linguistics.
53. • Semantic Combinability of “梳”:
161
– 梳, 機, 權, 檢, 校, 標, 格, 村, 極, 槍,
根, 核, 樣, 材, 松, 柏, 檔……
• Semantic Combinability of
“疆”: 1
• Phonetic Combinability of “溝”:
6
– 溝, 構, 購, 搆, 媾, 講
• Phonetic Combinability of
“繃”: 2
– 繃, 蹦
t value p values
log frequency -5.4 < .001
phonetic combinability -4.2 < .001
semantic combinability -3 .002
number of strokes 3.8 < .001
Summary of fixed effects in lexical decision latencies in Lee et al. (2015)
Radical Combinability (Feldman & Siok 1997)
54.
55.
56. Semantic constrain and cloze probability
The amplitude of N400 is inversely correlate to the degree of
semantic congruency and cloze probability.
57. An application of N400 for
the Peabody picture
vocabulary test-Revised
(PPVT):
A tool for evaluation of
vocabulary knowledge
(Connolly et al., 1995)
58. • Approximately, 80% of characters
are phonograms (Zhou, 1978).
– These are made up of a phonetic
radical and a semantic radical.
semantic radical phonetic radical
59. The consistency effect in the reading of
Chinese characters
• Fang et al. (1986); Lee et al.(2004, 2005).
– High consistency characters: 謠
– Low consistency characters: 梳