Contexts and priming conditions in Experiments 1 and 2.

In the context of distributed segmental overlap in Experiment 1, a picture (e.g., 锤 /chui2/ “hammer”) could be preceded by another picture with onset overlap (e.g., 巢 /chao2/ “nest”) or rhyme overlap (e.g., 柜 /gui4/ “cabinet”) in their names, so that onset repetition and rhyme repetition were mixed and unpredictable. Trials with immediate onset repetition or rhyme repetition after the preceding trials constituted the priming condition of unpredictable onset repetition (O) or unpredictable rhyme repetition (R).