The Phonological Process with Two Patterns of Simplified Chinese Characters

• Authors: Zheng Jin , Junehee Lee , Yang Lee
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper analyzed word recognition in two patterns of Chinese characters, cross referenced with word frequency. The patterns were defined as uni-part (semantic radical/component only) and bi-part (including the phonetic radical/component and the semantic radical/component) characters. The interactions of semantic and phonological access in both patterns were inspected. It was observed that in the naming task and the pronunciation-matching task, the subject performance involving the uni-part characters showed longer RT than the bi-part characters. However, with the lexical decision and meaning-matching tasks the uni-part characters showed shorter RT than the bi-part characters. It was also observed that the frequency, which is regarded as a lexical variable, displayed a strong influence. This suggests that Chinese characters require lexical access in all tasks. This study also suggested that the phonological process is primary in visual word recognition; as there is a significant phonological effect in processing the Chinese bi-part characters, resulting in either the facilitation or inhibition of phonology due to the differing demands of the two tasks

Keywords

EN

phonological process; lexical access; word frequency; Chinese character; bilingual

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 389-403

Dates

published

2013-12-01

online

2014-03-11

Contributors

author

Zheng Jin

• Institute of Educational Science, Zhengzhou Normal University, China

author

Junehee Lee

• Department of psychology, Gyeongsang National University, Korea

author

Yang Lee

• Department of psychology, Gyeongsang National University, Korea

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rela-2013-0005