Monosyllabic words read in carrier sentence by consultant M5; reading condition: 'Impatient'

The consultant was shown the target items in writing, as part of a randomized list on paper. The imagined context was that people are watching a TV programme about calligraphy. The target words were recorded under two reading conditions: the context for the first reading, referred to below as CAREFUL, is that a child asks which character is being written, and the consultant provides the answer. Under the second condition, referred to as IMPATIENT, the child is naughty, asking for the umpteenth time without paying attention to answers; the consultant says the answer again, but in a way that will clarify to the child that (s)he is being rude and should not speak up again. A final affirmative particle /mɤ̀/, reduplicated to /mɤ̌~mɤ̀/ for emphasis, is added to the carrier sentence to facilitate the rendering of this attitude. The reason for asking consultants to imagine a TV show, rather than a live performance, is so that they will not feel called upon to whisper the answer in order not to disturb the (fictitious) calligrapher.发音顾问将收到以纸质随机列表形式呈现的书面目标项。实验设定的想象场景为：观众正在观看一档关于书法的电视节目。目标词汇的录制分为两种朗读情境：第一种情境（下文记为CAREFUL）的场景为，一名孩童询问当前书写的汉字是什么，发音顾问予以解答；第二种情境（下文记为IMPATIENT）的场景为，孩童十分调皮，反复提问却未认真倾听回答，发音顾问再次给出答案，但需通过语气明确告知该孩童其行为失礼，不应再随意插话。为便于传递该态度，实验人员会在载体句末尾添加肯定语气助词/mɤ̀/，并将其重叠为/mɤ̌~mɤ̀/以增强语气。要求发音顾问想象电视节目场景而非现场书写场景的原因在于：避免其因担心打扰虚构场景中的书写者，而觉得有必要压低声音给出答案。