Native and Non-Native Speakers’ Recognition of Chinese Two-Character Words in Audio Sentence Comprehension
Wenling Ma, Degao Li, Xiuling Dong, Neil Dagnall · 2024
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Description
Wenling Ma and co-authors test, in a 2024 study, how listeners recognize two-character Chinese words inside spoken sentences. Volunteers heard a sentence containing a number, a classifier, and a noun, but the sound stopped just before the noun and a written target flashed instead.
Targets were the expected noun, its characters swapped, a control word, or sound-alike nonwords, and listeners judged each quickly before the sentence resumed. Both native and learner listeners treated the written words as whole units, guided by their Chinese skill. Natives also processed the parts of each word; learners largely did not. Skill, more than nativeness alone, shaped the strategy.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Wenling Ma, Degao Li, Xiuling Dong, Neil Dagnall |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 58 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |