Recognition Processes in Character Naming

Hue, Chih-Wei

doi:10.1016/s0166-4115(08)61888-9

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“…The lack of significant consistency effects for Kanji is different not only from English but from word-naming data in other languages as well, for example, Italian (e.g., Colombo, 1992) and, more strikingly, Chinese (Hue, 1992;Yin, Butterworth, & Patterson, 1995). Most Chinese characters are phonograms with two components: the radical, which represents a broad semantic field (i.e., a clue to the meaning of the character), and the phonetic component, which typically provides a clue to the pronunciation of the character.…”

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“…Even more germane to the present article, both Hue (1992 Norris & Brown, 1985); The great majority of irregular English words deviate from a more typical, rule-governed pronunciation only in one Ã § two p b nemes, typically the vowel (e.g., the regularized pomnciations of caste andpint are only one phoneme different f i ' t h c correct pronunciations). If much, even though not all, ofwimt the reader computes at the subword level is applica.We to the final pronunciation, then once again it may be more.…”

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“…Consistency effects in English (e.g., Jared et al, 1990), and also in other writing systems such as Italian (Colombo, 1992) and Chinese (Hue, 1992), are more prominent for lower frequency words; we could thus argue W . 9 6 a y fll)~sisweffects in k n j i will have Table 3 shows mean RTs for correct responses (in rniUiseconds percentage of error rates) par condition.…”

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The inconsistency of consistency effects in reading: The case of Japanese Kanji.

Wydell

Butterworth²,

Patterson³

1995

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

108

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Most Japanese Kanji characters have several different pronunciations, at least one ON-reading (of Chinese origin) and a KUN-reading (of Japanese origin); the appropriate pronunciation is determined by intraword wntext. There are also Kanji characters that have a single ON-reading and no KUN-reading. With 2-character ON-reading Kanji words as stimuli, naming experiments were carried out to investigate print-to-sound consistency effects. The consistent Kanji words were those in which neither constituent character had an alternative ON-reading or a KUN-reading, hence there can be no pronunciation ambiguity for these words. The inconsistent items were ON-reading words composed of characters that have KUN-readings that are appropriate to other words in which the characters occur, hence there should be some ambiguity about the pronunciation of the constituent characters. Six experiments yielded reliable effects of both word and character frequency and familiarity on speed and accuracy of word naming but virtually no evidence for consistency effects. It was concluded that for Kanji, phonology is dominantly computed at the word rather than at the character level.

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The inconsistency of consistency effects in reading: The case of Japanese Kanji.

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Patterson³

1995

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

108

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“…The consistency score, defined by type, is a measure of the total number of friends to the total number of neighbors. Similar to the findings in English, several studies have shown consistency effects in naming Chinese characters (Fang et al, 1986;Hue, 1992;Yang, McCandliss, Shu, & Zevin, 2009). However, these studies have been inconsistent as to whether the consistency effect emerged in naming high-frequency characters.…”

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“…Character frequency A considerable amount of evidence has indicated that character frequency is a powerful predictor of RTs in Chinese character recognition; frequency effects have been observed consistently in a wide range of tasks (Hue, 1992;Lee et al, 2005;Liu et al, 2007;Yang et al, 2009). Higher frequency characters tend to be processed more quickly than lower frequency characters during naming (Lee et al, 2005;Yang et al, 2009).…”

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A psycholinguistic database for traditional Chinese character naming

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In this study, we aimed to provide a large-scale set of psycholinguistic norms for 3,314 traditional Chinese characters, along with their naming reaction times (RTs), collected from 140 Chinese speakers. The lexical and semantic variables in the database include frequency, regularity, familiarity, consistency, number of strokes, homophone density, semantic ambiguity rating, phonetic combinability, semantic combinability, and the number of disyllabic compound words formed by a character. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to examine the predictive powers of these variables for the naming RTs. The results demonstrated that these variables could account for a significant portion of variance (55.8 %) in the naming RTs. An additional multiple regression analysis was conducted to demonstrate the effects of consistency and character frequency. Overall, the regression results were consistent with the findings of previous studies on Chinese character naming. This database should be useful for research into Chinese language processing, Chinese education, or crosslinguistic comparisons. The database can be accessed via an online inquiry system (http://ball.ling.sinica.edu.tw/ namingdatabase/index.html).Keywords Naming . Chinese character naming . Psycholinguistic norm . Chinese visual word recognition Understanding how readers process words, which are fundamental units for reading, has been a core issue in psycholinguistic studies. Behavioral studies have utilized tasks such as naming, lexical decision, speech perception, and synonym judgment, with the aim of understanding how orthographic, phonological, and semantic information is processed during visual word recognition. These experiments have typically employed a factorial design by manipulating one or two lexical variables (e.g., word frequency and spelling-to-sound consistency) in a limited set of stimuli, while trying to control for other lexical variables (e.g., orthographic neighborhood size and acoustic properties of onsets) in order to prevent any potential confounds. Although this approach has provided fruitful evidence to advance our understanding of how various lexical properties affect visual word recognition, it has some limitations in terms of how to select a set of items that vary in only one dimension and how to generalize the findings to a larger set of stimuli.To overcome these limitations, a number of large-scale psycholinguistic databases have been made available for languages with alphabetic orthographies, including English (Balota et al

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The subtypes of developmental dyslexia in Chinese: evidence from three cases

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This study investigated subtypes of developmental dyslexia in Chinese by assessing three cases of Chinese dyslexic children. A battery of screening measures, a character naming and meaning task, and metalinguistic awareness tasks were administered to each child. One of the three children demonstrated characteristics of developmental surface dyslexia, and the other two showed characteristics of developmental deep dyslexia. Moreover, the children's reading problems were found to be specifically related to their deficits in metalinguistic awareness. The dissociation between developmental surface and deep dyslexia provides support to Weekes et al.'s (Neurocase 1997; 3: 51-60) model that a semantic and a nonsemantic pathway exist independently in Chinese reading. The results also suggest that deficits in morphological and phonological awareness may cause developmental delays in the semantic and the nonsemantic pathway.

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Recognition Processes in Character Naming

Cited by 98 publications

References 14 publications

The inconsistency of consistency effects in reading: The case of Japanese Kanji.

The inconsistency of consistency effects in reading: The case of Japanese Kanji.

A psycholinguistic database for traditional Chinese character naming

The subtypes of developmental dyslexia in Chinese: evidence from three cases

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