Interlingual two-to-one mapping of tonal categories

Junru Wu; Yiya Chen; Vincent J. Van Heuven; Niels O. Schiller

doi:10.1017/S1366728916000493

Interlingual two-to-one mapping of tonal categories

Junru Wu^*
, Yiya Chen
, Vincent J. Van Heuven
, Niels O. Schiller

^*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review

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Abstract

Both Standard Chinese (SC) high- and low-rising tones sound like the rising tone in Jinan Mandarin (JM) Chinese. Acoustically (Experiment 1), the JM rising tone overlaps with both SC rising tones, but more with the high-rising tone than with the low-rising tone. Perceptually (Experiment 2), the JM rising tone was more likely identified as the SC high-rising tone by SC monolinguals. Experiment 3 examined the role of this two-to-one interlingual tonal mapping in bilingual lexical access. Final high-rising SC pseudo-words were more frequently and more quickly accepted as JM real words than final low-rising SC pseudo-words were. However, both high- and low-rising SC pseudo-words triggered equivalent facilitatory semantic priming on JM real-word targets. The results suggest that different tones are represented in the bilinguals' mental lexicon in terms of fine-grained and sometimes overlapping acoustic specifications. Lexical activation and semantic activation are partially independent. © Cambridge University Press 2016.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	813-833
Journal	Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
Volume	20
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728916000493
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2017
Externally published	Yes

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bilingual tone processing
interlingual speech perception
lexical access
Lexical tones
semantic priming

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