Modeling of phonological encoding in spoken word production: FromGermanic languages toMandarinChinese andJapanese

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Abstract It is widely assumed that spoken word production in G ermanic languages like D utch and E nglish involves a parallel activation of phonemic segments and metrical frames in memory, followed by a serial association of segments to the frame, as implemented in the WEAVER ++ model ( L evelt, R oelofs, & M eyer, 1999). However, for Oriental languages like M andarin C hinese and Japanese, researchers have suggested that the serial association concerns atonal phonological syllables ( M andarin C hinese) or moras ( J apanese) to tonal frames. Here, the utility of these theoretical suggestions is demonstrated by computer simulations of key empirical findings using versions of WEAVER ++ for E nglish, M andarin C hinese (纺 织 者++), and J apanese ( ). The simulation outcomes suggest that, although languages may differ in the phonological structure of their words, the principles underlying phonological encoding are similar across languages.

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