Exploring Semantic Activation of Phonetic Radical in Chinese Character Recognition
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
Lee, Hsuan-Yi
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
Based on finding from primed character naming experiments, Zhou and Marslen-Wilson (1999b) argued that there are simultaneous processes of a whole character and its embeding radicals. The present studies examined their argument. Three experiments were conducted. In Experiment 1, the same design as their experiments was adopted, using not only a naming task but also a lexical decision task. In Experiment 2, a similar design as Experiment 1 was adopted, except that a primed condition of phonetic radical priming was excluded. The results of these two experiments showed that there was no facilitatory semantic priming effect of phonetic radical observed in the naming task, but instead, some facilitatory semantic priming effects was observed in the LDT task. In Experiment 3, token frequency of a radical, and character frequency of a radical on its own right as a character, were further included into orthogonal manipulation. It was found that only when low frequency target chatacter preceded by a primed character with a low token frequency phonetic radical, which also could stand alone as a high frequency character, facilitatory priming effect could be observed in lexical decision. It was elaborated that semantic activation of phonetic radical could only be observed under some circumstances which can induce subject’s coping strategies. The proposal of Zhou and Marslen-Wilson was thus not supported.
Subjects
漢字
唸名
字彙判斷
語意激發
部件
聲旁
Chinese character
word recognition
naming
lexical decision
semantic activation
radical
phonetic radicals
Type
other
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