Abstract
Both naming task and character decision task were used to investigate the stroke number effect and radical number effect in the processing of Chinese characters. Results indicated that 1) a character with fewer strokes is accessed faster than a character with more strokes when their radical numbers were matched; 2) there is no significant interaction between stroke number and character frequency; 3) radical number effect only existed in low frequency characters; 4) processing of a character included three levels, namely stroke, radical, and character, and 5) processing time of a character is affected by the stroke numbers per radical and the radical number.
| Keywords: | Chinese character, stroke number effect, radical number effect, character frequency. |
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