形符不表义的高频汉字的加工特点——来自启动实验的探索

What Do Semantic Radicals Convey When They Do Not Bear Meaning:A Priming Study for High-frequency Semantically Opaque Chinese Compounds

通过启动实验考察形符不表义的高频汉字的加工特点,结果发现:(1)不表义形符与整字之间没有亚字水平的抑制性联结,为形符教学扫除了潜在的理论障碍;(2)形符具有表形和表义两种认知功能,形符表义度和组字能力有交互作用,共同调节着形符的作用。表义形符的两种功能都能得到充分实现,不表义形符的功能主要是整字字形的激活。结果表明不表义形符产生干扰作用是有限制条件的,形符的激活特点反映了汉字心理词典中汉字表征的组织特点。最后讨论了上述结果对汉字学习和教学的意义。

Some experiments report that characters with semantically opaque radical（s） inhibit transparent radical characters in priming study, which may be a potential obstacle for semantic learning theoretically. This study focuses on the access of semantic radicals in non-transparent Chinese characters. We find that： （1） there is no inhibition between opaque radicals and the character representations; （2） radical combinability and transparency have interaction, and these two factors combined influence the access of semantic radical and phonetic compounds ; and （3） opaque semantic radicals only have an inhibitive influence in certain conditions.