Disentangling the roles of phonological well-formedness and lexical attestedness in phonotactic processing has proven challenging. In this study, we present results from a passive listening ERP study showing that English speakers exhibit distinct neural responses to CCVC nonce words according to the phonological well-formedness and attestedness (in English) of the onset cluster. Clusters with poor sonority sequencing evoked an N400 effect compared to those without poor sonority sequencing, regardless of whether the well-formed clusters were attested in English. In contrast, unattested clusters, regardless of whether they were well-formed or ill-formed in terms of sonority sequencing, evoked a late positivity compared to attested clusters. The results suggest that listeners first perform a phonological analysis on potential words before submitting them to a lexical search.

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解开语音上的良好形式和证明

事实证明，弄清语音组织形式和词汇证明在音位练习处理中的作用具有挑战性。在这项研究中，我们提供了一项来自被动收听ERP研究的结果，该结果表明英语使用者根据发作簇的语音良好形式和证明（英语）表现出对CCVC随机数词的独特神经反应。与没有不良音序的那些聚类相比，具有较差的音序的聚类引起了N400效应，而不管是否用英语证明了格式正确的聚类。相比之下，未经证实的簇，无论它们在声音顺序上是格式正确的还是不良形式的，与经证明的簇相比都引起后期阳性。