亚词汇水平加工的本质:形旁的语音激活

THE NATURE OF SUBLEXICAL PROCESSING IN READING CHINESE:PHONOLOGICAL ACTIVATION OF SEMANTIC RADICALS

该研究利用启动命名技术，探讨了汉字加工时是否存在着形旁的语音激活。把含有独立成字的形旁的合体字（如“躲”）作为启动字，与形旁同音的字（如“深”）作为目标字。结果发现，当合体字是低频字时，目标字的命名速度显著加快。高频合体字则没有此效应。集合Ｚｈｏｕ和Ｍａｒｓｌｅｎ－Ｗｉｌｓｏｎ关于声旁语义激活的研究，该文得出结论说，汉字亚同汇水平的加工与词汇水平的加工表现一样，两者之间并无本质性的差别。

Most complex Chinese characters are composed of a semantic radical on the left and a phoneticradical on the right. Semantic radicals may indicate the semantic category of morphemes correspondingto the characters, whereas phonetic radicals may point to the pronunciations of the whole character.Using a primed naming technique, this study investigated into the nature of sublexical processing inreading Chinese. Complex characters were used as primes while characters homophonic to the semanticradicals embedded in the primes were used as targets. Consistent with Zhou & Marslen-Wilson (1999a,1999b), which observed semantic activation of phonetic radicals in reading complex characters, thisstudy found phonological activation of semantic radicals in reading low frequency complex characters. Itwas concluded that there were no fundamental differences between sublexical processing of semantic andphonetic radicals and lexical processing of simple and complex characters.