In an event-related potential (ERP) study of the vowel team rule in American English (“when two vowels go walking, the first does the talking”), we used a visual lexical decision task to determine whether words that do (e.g., braid) and do not (e.g., cloud) follow the rule elicit different processing, and to determine if this extends to nonwords (e.g., braip, cloup). In 32 young adults, N1 amplitude distinguished between rule-following and rule-breaking items: N1 amplitude was more negative to rule-breaking words and nonwords. In contrast, there were no significant effects of vowel team rule adherence on N400 amplitude. Behaviorally, participants responded more quickly and accurately to rule-following words, a pattern not observed for nonwords. These findings demonstrate that adherence to the vowel team rule can be indexed by both neural and behavioral measures in fluently reading young adults.

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当两个元音走时：元音团队规则的 ERP 研究

在美国英语元音团队规则的事件相关电位 (ERP) 研究中（“当两个元音行走时，第一个说话”），我们使用视觉词汇决策任务来确定单词是否会说话（例如，braid）和不（例如cloud）遵循规则引发不同的处理，并确定这是否扩展到非单词（例如braip、cloup）。在 32 名年轻人中，N1 幅度区分了遵守规则和违反规则的项目：N1 幅度对违反规则的单词和非单词更负。相比之下，元音组规则依从性对 N400 幅度没有显着影响。在行为上，参与者对遵循规则的单词的反应更快、更准确，这是一种在非单词中没有观察到的模式。这些发现表明，在流利阅读的年轻人中，遵守元音团队规则可以通过神经和行为测量来索引。