The temporal and spatial features of segmental and suprasegmental encoding during implicit picture naming: An event-related potential study

► Initial consonants are retrieved 20-80 ms earlier than tones or central vowels. ► Tones are retrieved simultaneously with central vowels. ► Segmental encoding proceeds in an incremental manner. ► Segmental and suprasegmental encoding run in parallel and independently. ► Provide evidence for WEAVER++ model in Chinese as a non-alphabetic language.