汉字识别中的形旁家族效应

The Effect of Semantic- radical Family in Chinese Character Recognition

目的探查汉字形旁家族对汉字识别的影响。方法实验1为2(家族大小)×2(频率高低)的实验设计,采用词汇判断任务,记录被试正确率和反应时。实验2为单因素实验设计,包括有、无高频成员字两个水平。结果实验1发现家族大小的效应受目标字频率的影响,大家族促进高频字的识别,抑制低频字的识别。实验2的结果显示,高频成员字对目标字的加工产生抑制作用。结论形旁家族大小和高频成员字影响目标汉字的词汇判断。

Objective To explore the effect of semantic - radical family on Chinese character recognition in lexical decision task. Methods A design of 2 （ family size） x 2 （character frequency） was used in Experiment 1. The pres- ence of higher frequency characters was manipulated in Experiment 2. A lexical decision task was adopted in both ex- periments, and the data on accuracy and reaction times were collected. Results Experiment 1 revealed that family size effect depended on character frequency. For high -frequency characters, responses were faster and more accurate in the condition of large family. In contrast, for low - frequency characters, longer reaction times and more errors were found in the condition of large family. Experiment 2 showed that the response for characters with HFNs was slower than that for characters without HFNs, suggesting HFNs inhibited character recognition. Conclusion Family size and higher frequency characters affected Chinese character recognition. Moreover, family size effect might be influenced by character frequency.