| dc.description.abstract | This research explored the role of radical and radical position in Chinses character recognition. The constituents of Chinese character orthography shall cover at least the character structure, the radicals, and the radical positions. Both behavioral and electrophisological approaches were adopted to tackle the orthographic processing issue.
In experiment 1, different tasks and SOA were used to find the priming effects during the manipulations of radical positions. The prime is one of the radicals belong to target character, but there is no significant priming effect.
When the prime’s structure is the same as the target’s structure, in experiment 2, the prime and the target shared one radical. There were facilitated priming effects when the same radical at the same position. If the prime is the radical combined with one low frequency radical, and then the subjects were interrupted to process the target character. So the combinability of radicals induced the inhibited priming effects. In experiment 3, through naming task and longer SOA, the facilitated priming effects turned into inhibited priming effects. When subjects process the characters longer, more information than radical position would be processed.
In experiment 4, there would be repetition priming effect when the prime and the target were the same characters. If the prime’s radical position reversed, there were still facilitated priming effects of low frequency target characters.
The current study shows the effect of radical position processing of Chinese character recognition in different experimental designs. According to the results, there would be more confident hypothesis of Chinsese orthographic rules. | en_US |