The goal of the present research was to study the time course of lexical stress encoding in a free-stress language with unpredictable stress. To this aim we measured event-related brain potentials (ERPs) during lexical priming. Participants named pictures bearing either the dominant or non-dominant stress pattern, and preceded by either a congruent or an incongruent word prime (e.g., CInema-FRAgola'cinema-strawberry’ vs. benZIna-FRAgola'petrol-strawberry’). Behavioral results show that participants were slower in naming targets that had the same stress pattern as the prime, and were also faster in producing words with the dominant stress pattern in the language. The electrophysiological results show that both the effects are compatible with the time course of phonological encoding in speech production. Surprisingly, a dominant stress effect occurred in the ERPs elicited by the primes, with a larger positivity for non-dominant stress words in a 150–250 ms time-window. The pattern of results indicates that during speech production: a) the system is sensitive to the stress patterns distribution; b) the automatic pre-activation of a metrical frame may interfere with the phonological encoding of a to-be-uttered word.

Sulpizio, S., Vespignani, F., Job, R. (2016). On the time course of lexical stress priming in speech production: Behavioral and ERPs evidence from a free-stress language. BRAIN RESEARCH, 1648(Pt A), 202-213 [10.1016/j.brainres.2016.07.018].

On the time course of lexical stress priming in speech production: Behavioral and ERPs evidence from a free-stress language

Sulpizio, S;
2016

Abstract

The goal of the present research was to study the time course of lexical stress encoding in a free-stress language with unpredictable stress. To this aim we measured event-related brain potentials (ERPs) during lexical priming. Participants named pictures bearing either the dominant or non-dominant stress pattern, and preceded by either a congruent or an incongruent word prime (e.g., CInema-FRAgola'cinema-strawberry’ vs. benZIna-FRAgola'petrol-strawberry’). Behavioral results show that participants were slower in naming targets that had the same stress pattern as the prime, and were also faster in producing words with the dominant stress pattern in the language. The electrophysiological results show that both the effects are compatible with the time course of phonological encoding in speech production. Surprisingly, a dominant stress effect occurred in the ERPs elicited by the primes, with a larger positivity for non-dominant stress words in a 150–250 ms time-window. The pattern of results indicates that during speech production: a) the system is sensitive to the stress patterns distribution; b) the automatic pre-activation of a metrical frame may interfere with the phonological encoding of a to-be-uttered word.
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ERPs; Lexical stress; Metrical structure; Speech production;
ERPs; Lexical stress; Metrical structure; Speech production; Neuroscience (all); Molecular Biology; Developmental Biology; Neurology (clinical)
English
2016
1648
Pt A
202
213
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Sulpizio, S., Vespignani, F., Job, R. (2016). On the time course of lexical stress priming in speech production: Behavioral and ERPs evidence from a free-stress language. BRAIN RESEARCH, 1648(Pt A), 202-213 [10.1016/j.brainres.2016.07.018].
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