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Author: Wang, M.
Title: A psycholinguistic investigation of speech production in Mandarin Chinese
Issue Date: 2017-07-05
A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC INVESTIGATION OF SPEECH PRODUCTION IN
MANDARIN CHINESE
Man Wang
A Psycholinguistic Investigation of Speech Production in Mandarin Chinese
Cover design: Ziqing Xu
Print: Ridderprint BV, Ridderkerk ISBN: 978-94-6299-629-8
Copyright © 2017 Man Wang. All rights reserved.
A Psycholinguistic Investigation of Speech Production in Mandarin Chinese
PROEFSCHRIFT
ter verkrijging van
de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden, op gezag van Rector Magnificus prof. mr. C.J.J.M. Stolker,
volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties te verdedigen op woensdag 5 juli 2017
klokke 11.15 uur
door Man Wang geboren te Shandong
in 1987
Promoter: Prof. dr. N.O. Schiller
Co-Promoter: dr. Y. Chen
Promotiecommissie: Prof. dr. J. Doetjes
Prof. dr. A. Roelofs (Radboud Universiteit) Prof. dr. R. Sybesma
Dr. R. Verdonschot (Waseda Institute for Advanced Study)
Acknowledgement
Writing a PhD dissertation is so much more challenging but rewarding than I had expected. I want to express my deepest gratitude to my supervisors Niels Schiller and Yiya Chen. Thank you for introducing me to such a fascinating subject and I benefit so much from your sharp minds and scopes of knowledge.
I want to thank you especially for your constant support and encouragement along this journey.
Special thanks go to my collaborators of my PhD project. Prof. dr.
Minghu Jiang, for offering me the ‘unlimited membership’ of the Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab in Tsinghua University (Beijing) and by all means support for carrying out my field research in Beijing. Dr. Zeshu Shao, I feel so fortunate to have met you and been able to explore our common interests in such an efficient and constructive way. Prof. dr. Antje Meyer, thank you for sharing your knowledge and for your honest and helpful comments.
I am grateful to all my participants in Leiden and China. Thank you for expressing your interests in my experiments and your endurance for repeatedly naming mundane objects and sitting in a small room with an EEG cap trying not to move or blink.
I would not have been able to finish my PhD dissertation with sanity without my colleagues inside and outside LUCL. Bobby, I feel so lucky to have you as my colleague and friend while carrying out my EEG experiments in the Pieter de la Court building and the Lipsius building. Thank you for translating my Nederlandse samenvatting within one day even when you have your own deadline soon. Thank you for helping me along the way especially in settling down a life in the Netherlands. Olga, thank you for our inspirational conversations from which I benefit strength and perseverance. Elly, thank you for offering the deal of proofreading all my manuscripts in exchange for
lessons of Chinese language, which have been my enjoyable escaping moments from the frustrations in research. Min, Qian and Yifei, for our meaningful discussions of research and support for each other. Viktorija, for lightening up our office. Some of the many others I want to thank are prof. dr. Gang Cui, dr.
Jessie Nixon, prof. dr. Jenny Doetjes, Jos Pacilly, dr. Kalinka Timmer, Gea Hakker, dr. Lesya Ganushchak, dr. Leticia Pablos, Mulugeta Tsegaye, prof. dr.
Rint Sybesma, Yan Gu, dr. Xiaoqing Li, Yang Yang, prof. dr. Yufang Yang. I also want to thank everyone who dropped by my presentations at conferences and the anonymous reviewers of my submitted papers for the inspirational comments and suggestions.
Thank you, Kassandra, for being my truthful companion along this bumpy journey.
Last but not least, I want to thank my family: my parents - Huiling and Wentian, and my sister - Ying, for allowing me to pursue my own journey and supporting me unconditionally.
This dissertation was supported by grants from “Talent and Training China-Netherlands” program.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction ... 1
1.1 A brief introduction to current psycholinguistic models of speech production ... 2
1.2 When models based on West Germanic languages meet Mandarin Chinese ... 6
1.3 Types of Mandarin Chinese characters ... 9
1.4 Experimental paradigms and measurements used in this dissertation ... 9
1.5 Overview of the experimental chapters ... 12
Chapter 2 The contribution of orthography to spoken word production in blocked cyclic Naming ... 14
2.1 Introduction ... 16
2.2 Methods ... 20
2.2.1 Participants ... 20
2.2.2 Materials and design ... 20
2.2.3 Procedure and apparatus ... 22
2.2.4 Data analysis ... 23
2.3 Results ... 23
2.4 Discussion ... 25
Chapter 3 The time course of speech production revisited: No early orthographic effect, even in Mandarin Chinese ... 28
3.1 Introduction ... 30
3.2 Experiment 1: No early orthographic effect ... 35
3.2.1 Methods ... 35
3.2.2 Results and discussion ... 37
3.3 Experiment 2: The time course of semantic, phonological and orthographic effects ... 42
3.3.1 Methods ... 42
3.4. Conclusion ... 49
Chapter 4 Neural correlates of spoken word production in blocked cyclic naming ... 50
4.1 Introduction ... 52
4.2 Methods ... 57
4.2.1 Participants ... 57
4.2.2 Materials ... 57
4.2.3 Procedure and apparatus ... 59
4.2.4 Electroencephalogram recording and data pre-processing ... 60
4.2.5 Statistical analysis ... 61
4.3 Results ... 61
4.3.1 Semantic effects ... 61
4.3.2 Phonological effects ... 67
4.4 Discussion ... 73
Chapter 5 Lexico-syntactic features are activated but not selected in bare noun production: Electrophysiological evidence from overt picture naming ... 80
5.1 Introduction ... 82
5.2 Methods ... 88
5.2.1 Participants ... 88
5.2.2 Materials ... 89
5.2.3 Design and procedure ... 90
5.2.4 Electroencephalogram recording and data pre-processing ... 91
5.3 Results ... 92
5.3.1 Behavioral data ... 92
5.3.2 ERP data ... 93
5.4 Discussion ... 99
Chapter 6 General discussion ... 105
References ... 116
Summary ... 135
Samenvatting in het Nederlands ... 141
Summary in Chinese ... 147
Appendices ... 152
Appendix I ... 152
Appendix II ... 156
Appendix III ... 162
Appendix IV ... 164
Curriculum vitae ...
