Vitevitch Michael S, Stamer Melissa K
Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
Lang Cogn Process. 2006;21(6):760-770. doi: 10.1080/01690960500287196.
In previous studies in English examining the influence of phonological neighbourhood density in spoken word production, words with many similar sounding words, or a dense neighbourhood, were produced more quickly and accurately than words with few similar sounding words, or a sparse neighbourhood. The influence of phonological neighbourhood density on the process of spoken word production in Spanish was examined with a picture-naming task. The results showed that pictures with Spanish names from sparse neighbourhoods were named more quickly than pictures with Spanish names from dense neighbourhoods. The present pattern of results is the opposite of what has been previously found in speech production in English. We hypothesise that differences in the morphology of Spanish and English and/or the location in the word where phonological neighbours tend to occur may contribute to the processing differences observed in the two languages.
在以往用英文进行的研究中，考察了语音邻域密度对口语单词生成的影响，结果发现，与语音相似词较少（即邻域稀疏）的单词相比，语音相似词较多（即邻域密集）的单词生成速度更快、准确性更高。本研究通过图片命名任务考察了语音邻域密度对西班牙语口语单词生成过程的影响。结果表明，西班牙语名称来自稀疏邻域的图片比来自密集邻域的图片命名速度更快。目前的结果模式与先前在英语语音生成中发现的情况相反。我们推测，西班牙语和英语在形态学上的差异和/或语音邻域倾向于出现的单词位置可能导致了两种语言中观察到的加工差异。
