Abstract
The effects of polysemy and word frequency in the identification of Chinese one-character word were examined in lexical decision, naming tasks and go-no go naming task. The results showed that significant polysemous advantage effects were observed in all tasks. The interaction appeared with the polysemy effects being produced only for low-frequency words in lexical decision task and naming task, but appeared for both low- and high-frequency words in the go-no go naming task. The pattern of results of all three tasks was almost the same. According to the parallel distributed processing models, a possible explanation of polysemy effects was proposed.
| Keywords: | one-character word; polysemous effect; lexical decision; naming; go-no go naming |
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