Abstract
Two lexical-decision experiments were conducted to assess phonological processes in Chinese lexical access. Results of Experiments 1 and 2 were that the lexical decision to a target character was not faster when preceded by a rhyming character cue than when preceded by a phonological-dissimilar character cue. The homophonic priming effect was obtained in Experiment 2. The effective activation of phonological information was dependent of the extent of the phonemic similarity between primes and targets. The possible conclusion was that the phonological activation was an automatic process in lexical access, which evidence was less obvious in Chinese than in the alphabetic writing; the access to meaning in Chinese reading may rely on the visual-orthographic properties in a great extent. The study seemed to support the dual-route theory.
| Keywords: | phonemic similarity; rhyming; homophone; priming; dual-route model |
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