ABSTRACT

T3 sandhi in Mandarin is a phonological alternation where two adjacent T3-T3 tones are not allowed and become T[2]-T3. Although this phenomenon has been extensively studied in previous work, concerns about how T3 sandhi is represented in the mental lexicon remain controversial. We approached the issue of representation in a series of cross-modal priming experiments, including two semantic priming experiments with and without context. Our results indicated that T2 failed to prime a target beginning with T3 in a non-sandhi context. However, both T2 and T3 were able to induce semantic activation when appropriate contextual information was present. Conversely, when such information was absent, only T3 activated the lexical entry. Thus, our study suggests that T3 is specified, as expected for dissimilation, and T2 is resolved by a re-writing rule only under appropriate contextual information.

摘要

普通话中的T3 Sandhi是一种语音交替，其中不允许两个相邻的T3-T3声调变为T[2]-T3。尽管在以前的工作中已经对这种现象进行了广泛的研究，但对 T3 Sandhi 在心理词典中如何表示的担忧仍然存在争议。我们在一系列跨模式启动实验中解决了表征问题，包括两个有上下文和没有上下文的语义启动实验。我们的结果表明，T2 未能在非 Sandhi 环境中启动以 T3 开头的目标。然而，当存在适当的上下文信息时，T2 和 T3 都能够诱导语义激活。相反，当这些信息不存在时，只有 T3 激活词条。因此，我们的研究表明 T3 是指定的，正如预期的异化，