title: Lexical access in Chinese speech comprehension and production.
abstract: This paper offers a description of Chinese speech comprehension and production processes that demonstrates why the word is the unit of lexical access-the Lexical Unit-in Chinese natural speech. It is argued that an access model which posits the morpheme as the Lexical Unit would be unlikely, as it must assume for Chinese either a real-time morpheme combination algorithm (i.e., an on-line grammar that takes morphemes as basic combinatory units) or an improbable lexical processing mechanism in which morphemes are identified as the first step in accessing precompiled words.
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA. j-packard@uiuc.edu
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Packard
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D012660:Semantics; D013060:Speech; D014825:Vocabulary