The Phonological Process with Two Patterns of Simplified Chinese Characters

Zheng Jin; Junehee Lee; Yang Lee

doi:10.2478/rela-2013-0005

Authors

Zheng Jin Zhengzhou Normal University, Institute of Educational Science, China
Junehee Lee Gyeongsang National University, Department of psychology, Korea
Yang Lee Gyeongsang National University, Department of psychology, Korea

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2478/rela-2013-0005

Keywords:

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

Abstract

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.

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