ERP Correlates of Transposed-Letter Effects in Uyghur Using Arabic Alphabet
- DOI
- 10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.451How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Transposed-letter effect; Evidence-related potentials; Uygur language; consonants and vowels processing
- Abstract
Recent research has shown that pseudowords created by transposing two nonadjacent letters are perceptually similar to their base words. Our aims are to expolore the issues: (1) whether the transposed-letter effect (TL effect) can be generalized to any type of alphabetic scripts; (2) whether the pseudowords transposing two consonants are more similar to their base words compared with those transposing vowels. We report one lexical decision task experiment in which pseudowords are created by transposing or replacing two consonants or two vowels in Uygur script ---- a linear writing system using Arabic alphabet, employing Event Related potentials (ERPs). Our experimental results show a significant variation between the modulation of the amplitude of the N400 components of the transposed-letter pseudowords and the replaced-letter pseudowords, which did not occur in Arabic language. Furthermore, the modulation differs from that of transposed consonants and vowels. These results suggest that visual words coding computational models are exclusive to linear scripts. And functional distinction between consonants and vowels processing indeed exists in languages using Arabic alphabet.
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- © 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Binuer Su AU - Minghu Jiang AU - Abudoukelimu Abulizi PY - 2015/11 DA - 2015/11 TI - ERP Correlates of Transposed-Letter Effects in Uyghur Using Arabic Alphabet BT - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science, Education Management and Sports Education PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1768 EP - 1771 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.451 DO - 10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.451 ID - Su2015/11 ER -