超过60%的人类语言使用音高模式（即声调）来区分词汇意义或语法形式。在语音中，声调和音段属于不同的声学维度，其在口语词汇识别中的相对线索权重在文献中似乎存在一些争议。近年来，更先进的技术（如眼动追踪或脑电图EEG）证明了声调在口语词汇识别中的不可或缺性。
在本次报告中，我们首先基于一系列眼动追踪数据，展示声调处理在口语词汇识别中的渐进性（最新数据）。其次，我们将通过眼动追踪数据和脑磁图（MEG）数据，展示声调在双语口语词汇识别中的必然作用。在理论层面，这些实证研究表明，声调不仅是声调语言中音系表征的一部分，还在语音感知和口语词汇识别中发挥着重要作用。
Over 60% of human languages use pitch patterns (i.e.,tones) to distinguish lexical meanings or grammatical forms of words. In speech, tones and segments belong to different acoustic dimensions, and their relative cue weighting in spoken word recognition appears to create some controversy in literature. Recently, more advanced techniques, like eye-tracking or EEG, demonstrated the obligatory role of lexical tones in spoken word recognition.
In this talk, we first demonstrate the incrementality of tone processing in spoken word recognition (fresh data), based on a series of eye-tracking data. Second, we will show the obligatory role of lexical tones in bilingual spoken word recognition in both eye-tracking data and MEG data. At the theoretical level, these empirical efforts show that lexical tones are part of the phonological representations in tonal languages, as well as their roles in Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition.
汪昕
汪昕博士是澳大利亚麦考瑞大学语言学系的高级讲师。她在亚利桑那大学的二语习得与教学项目中获得博士学位，师从Ken Forster，利用掩蔽启动研究双语者的视觉词汇识别。她的早期研究重点是双语者的心理词汇，随后对语音感知和口语词汇识别产生了兴趣，与Bob McMurray合作，并建立了自己的实验室，专注于双语研究、词汇声调等领域。她在相关领域的多家学术期刊上以第一或通讯作者发表了论文（共20篇），包括《双语：语言与认知》（Bilingualism: Language and Cognition）、《语言、认知与神经科学》（Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience）、《认知》（Cognition）等。
Dr Xin Wang is a senior lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Australia. She did her PhD in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, where she studied with Ken Forster using masked priming to study bilingual visual word recognition. Her earlier work focused on the bilingual mental lexicon. Later, she developed interests in Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition, working with Bob McMurray, and also ran her own lab focusing on Bilingualism, Lexical Tone, etc. She has published in a variety of journals in her field (n=20), including Bilingualism: Language and Cognition; Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience;Cognition, etc.
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