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1098.97 The role of the phonological output buffer in speech production, Hanzhong Xiong 1 ,
Hua Shu 1 , Zaizhu Han 1 , Xiaoli Bai 2 , Yanchao Bi 3 , 1 Beijing Normal University, China; 2 Beijing
Friendship Hospital, China; 3 Harvard University, USA
The phonological output buffer is an important stage in speech production, but its function is
unclear so far. The present study described a Chinese-speaking patient, who showed selective
impairment in all phonological output processes. He made the same error patterns, which most
consisted of onset-errors, in reading, repetition of words and nonwords as in picture naming.
Further analyses revealed that there was a strong length effect, but no effect of word frequency,
grammatical class, and concreteness in above tasks. The result is interpreted as damage to the
phonological output buffer. Its function in speech production is discussed in detail.
1098.98 Spelling in Chinese: A RT study, Haiyan Zhou, Hua Shu, Beijing Normal University,
Beijing, China
Few researches focus on Chinese spelling, because it’s hard to find on-line task to record the
processing sensitively and accurately. Furthermore, lots of homophones exist in Chinese and the
sound-to-spelling rule is more complex. This study is interested in Chinese spelling using
cross-modal paradigm. Mono-syllable characters used in E1, showed the effect of homophone
family. Bisyllable words used in E2, revealed the effect of transparency of words, except for the
effect of homophone family. The results suggests the existence of plenty of homophones increases
difficulty in Chinese spelling, but semantic-context will help to select the right one from
homophones.
1098.99 Semantic features in the comprehention of novel metaphors, Midori Shibata, Jun-ichi
Abe, Hokkaido University, Japan
This study explored what semantic features are activated during the comprehension of novel
metaphors. Three types of sentences were prepared as materials; anomalous sentences,
conventional metaphors, and novel metaphors which had been proved to be understood
figuratively in our previous experiment. Participants were required to respond to the sentences
above in terms of their semantic features; the ones associated with the topic, the vehicle, and the
sentence itself respectively. The result showed the majority of the semantic features associated
with the novel metaphor sentences were not the same as those associated with the topic and the
vehicle, but newly emerging ones.
1098.100 The cognitive processing of verbal reading of Chinese between hearing-disabled and
hearing children: A comparative study, Zhao Zhang, China
The results showed that the function of graphic code in visual processing was strongly correlated
with recognition of words of Chinese characteristics than the phoneme code and semantic code in
both the hearing-disabled and hearing children. For hearing-disabled children, the alternative was
the direct access that a semantic code was produced directly form a translation of the graphic code,
however, the hearing children used the strategies of grapheme-phoneme conversion rules to
interpret the meaning of words. The analysis of various results showed: Perhaps both the direct
access and the grapheme-phoneme conversion would be a comprehensive information processing
activated each other.
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