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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2015

The Processing of Visual and Phonological Configurations of Chinese One- and Two-Character Words in a Priming Task of Semantic Categorization.

Bosen Ma, Xiaoyun Wang, Degao Li

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Bosen MaDepartment of Linguistics, School of International Studies, Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China.
Xiaoyun WangDepartment of Linguistics, School of International Studies, Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China.
Degao LiDepartment of Linguistics, School of International Studies, Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China.

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Abstract

To separate the contribution of phonological from that of visual-orthographic information in the recognition of a Chinese word that is composed of one or two Chinese characters, we conducted two experiments in a priming task of semantic categorization (PTSC), in which length (one- or two-character words), relation, prime (related or unrelated prime-target pairs), and SOA (47, 87, or 187 ms) were manipulated. The prime was similar to the target in meaning or in visual configuration in Experiment A and in meaning or in pronunciation in Experiment B. The results indicate that the two-character words were similar to the one-character words but were less demanding of cognitive resources than the one-character words in the processing of phonological, visual-orthographic, and semantic information. The phonological primes had a facilitating effect at the SOA of 47 ms but an inhibitory effect at the SOA of 187 ms on the participants' reaction times; the visual-orthographic primes only had an inhibitory influence on the participants' reaction times at the SOA of 187 ms. The visual configuration of a Chinese word of one or two Chinese characters has its own contribution in helping retrieve the word's meanings; similarly, the phonological configuration of a one- or two-character word plays its own role in triggering activations of the word's semantic representations.

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Chinese wordsphonological configurationsemantic categorization tasksemantic representationsvisual configuration

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