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easoning. Sixteen children aged from 2 to 6 participated in the study. The children’s hypothetical
questions and responses were elicited in story-telling sessions. The results showed that the
children started to engage in hypothetical references as early as two and half years old. They
acquired future reference earlier than past references although it was possible that they were
capable of using past references; an open or neutral hypothetical was an earlier acquisition than a
counter-to-fact hypothetical. Overall, a strong developmental trend was found.
1098.126 Perceptual symbol representation and reposition symbol representation in
comprehension, Li Li, Lei Mo, Ruiming Wang, South China Normal University, China
Using moving window method to investigate the mode of information representation in the human
brain. According to whether the shape of the object in picture was consistent with that in sentence,
the experimental materials were divided into two categories: consistent version and inconsistent
version. The results in experiment 1 show that there is perceptual symbol representation in
comprehension. The results in experiment 2 show that there is prepositional symbol representation
in comprehension when comprehension task becomes more difficult. The results in experiment 3
show that there is also prepositional symbol representation when related information is pushed
into long-memory.
1098.127 Dynamic lexical activation effects of lexical tones in Cantonese, Siyun Liu, Arthur
Samuel, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
In Indo-European languages, a word’s perception is influenced by the set of words with similar
onsets (its “cohort”). For tone languages like Cantonese, tones affect lexical identification. This
study investigates whether there is a cohort effect based on lexical tone onset, as there is with
segmental information. Four Cantonese tones were tested( Tones1,2,6 and 7). On each trial,
participated heard a “prime” and a “target” word, and had to identify target tone. The prime’s tone
could be identical, similar, or different from the target’s; the completeness of the prime was also
varied. Results and their implications will be discussed.
1098.128 Perceptual symbol representation and propositional symbol representation in
conprehension, Li Li, Lei Mo, Ruiming Wang, South China Normal University, China
Using moving window method to investigate the mode of information representation in the human
brain. According to whether the shape of the object in picture was consistent with that in sentence,
the experimental materials were divided into two categories: consistent version and inconsistent
version. The results in experiment 1 show that there is perceptual symbol representation in
comprehension. The results in experiment 2 show that there is propositional symbol representation
in comprehension when comprehension task becomes more difficult. The results in experiment 3
show that there is also propositional symbol representation when related information is pushed
into long-memory.
1098.129 Experimental research on the role of Information structure and accent in Chinese speech
comprehension, Dan Wang, Yufang Yang, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
China
Two experiments were investigated the correspondence between sentence accentuation and
distribution of information in speech comprehension. Experiment 1, target words provided either
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