Abstract
The present experiment was conducted to examine whether Chinese character identification is mediated by phonological processes or not. A masked priming paradigm was used. Five kinds of character pairs were used as stimuli (orthographically similar; orthographically similar homonym; homophone; synonym; and cotrol character). All of them were divided into higher and lower frequencies, The exposure duration were 40ms for targets and 25, 35, 45ms for priming characters. The results showed that there was a signiicant inhibit effect for homophone targets compared with control targets at 25ms and 35ms exposure duration in the condition of higher frequency, And the orthographically similar homonym targets got significant facilitation effect at 25ms. In lower frequency condition a significant facilitation was obtained for both orthographically similar and orthographically similar homonym targets at three exposure durations of priming. And the homophone showed insignificant difference compared to the control targets, The results suggest that Chinese character identification is mediated by phonological processes. The conditions in which the function of phonology appeared were discussed.
| Keywords: | phonology; Chinese character; recognition; priming |
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