THE GATING PARADIGM AND SPOKEN WORD RECOGNITION OF CHINESE
Gating技术与汉语听觉词汇加工

Attempt to use gating paradigm and analyze data exploringly, the present study e xamined spoken word recognition of Chinese. The subjects were 47 undergraduates from Beijing Normal University, China. Each Mandarin monosyllable word was prese nted in duration-blocked format. The acoustic information of each word was incre ased cross groups with 40msec a gate. The subjects were asked to write down the word being presented and to indicate how confident they were about each guess on a 7-point scale. The results suggested that gating paradigm, as an approach for investigation of spoken word recognition of Chinese, provided rich informat ion, such as isolation point (IP), and the relationship of IP and tone. Furthe rmore , error analysis showed more details of processing. First, tone can be re cognized independently. Second, although tonal information is represented in mental lexicon in terms of distinctive features, these features are not the onl y constraints in on-line tone recognition. And finally, spoken word recognition , both for segmental and suprasegmental information , is influenced by the te mporal order of tone pronunciation.