TY  - JOUR
AB  - We investigated the role of the syllable during speech processing in German, in an auditory-auditory fragment priming study with lexical decision and simultaneous EEG registration. Spoken fragment primes either shared segments (related) with the spoken targets or not (unrelated), and this segmental overlap either corresponded to the first syllable of the target (e.g., /teis/ – /teisti/), or not (e.g., /teis/ – /teistləs/). Similar prime conditions applied for word and pseudoword targets. Lexical decision latencies revealed facilitation due to related fragments that corresponded to the first syllable of the target (/teis/ – /teisti/). Despite segmental overlap, there were no positive effects for related fragments that mismatched the first syllable. No facilitation was observed for pseudowords. The EEG analyses showed a consistent effect of relatedness, independent of syllabic match, from 200 to 500 ms, including the P350 and N400 windows. Moreover, this held for words and pseudowords that differed however in the N400 window. The only specific effect of syllabic match for related prime—target pairs was observed in the time window from 200 to 300 ms. We discuss the nature and potential origin of these effects, and their relevance for speech processing and lexical access.
AU  - Bien, Heidrun
AU  - Bölte, Jens
AU  - Zwitserlood, Pienie
DA  - 2015-01-12
DO  - doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01544
KW  - speech perception
KW  - form priming
KW  - ERPs
KW  - lexical access
KW  - lexical decision
KW  - syllables
KW  - fragment priming
KW  - German language
LA  - eng
N1  - Frontiers in Psychology 5 (2015) 1544, 1-12
N1  - Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2014/2015 der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) und der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
PY  - 2015-01-12
SN  - 1664-1078
TI  - Do syllables play a role in German speech perception? Behavioral and electrophysiological data from primed lexical decision
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-00379579497
Y2  - 2024-11-22T01:06:21
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