漢語語言產製中的詞形登錄歷程

Keynote Speech of the 42nd Annual Convention of the Chinese Psychological Association

語言產製的研究大多集中在印歐語言上探討。本文介紹近年來在漢語上的研究，以及其對吾人瞭解漢語或一般說話歷程上的貢獻。這方面的研究以雷維爾特（Levelt）所提出的理論為標的，探討其有關詞形登錄歷程的若干假設是否適用於漢語。一系列的實驗結果顯示：（1）漢語語言產製不大涉及詞素的登錄，（2）不帶調的音韻音節可能是一個被儲存的語言單位，在漢語語言產製的過程中被提取出來處理。

Research in speech production has almost exclusively focused on Indo-European languages. The present article summarizes recent work in Chinese speech production and points out how it contributes to our understanding of speech production in the language as well as in general. The Levelt-type model of speech production and its computer implementation, WEAVER++, were chosen as the target for investigation. Specifically, the model's postulations about the word form encoding processes were scrutinized to see if they hold valid in Chinese. A series of experiments revealed that (1) morphological encoding is at best minimally involved in Chinese speech production, and (2) phonological syllables (segmental syllables) in Chinese may be stored linguistic units which are retrieved during word production.