The Phonological Process with Two Patterns of Simplified Chinese Characters

Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p> This paper analyzed word recognition in two patterns of Chinese characters, cross referenced with word frequency. The patterns were defined as uni-part (semantic radical/component only) and bi-part (including the phonetic radical/component and the semantic radical/component) characters. The interactions of semantic and phonological access in both patterns were inspected. It was observed that in the naming task and the pronunciation-matching task, the subject performance involving the uni-part characters showed longer RT than the bi-part characters. However, with the lexical decision and meaning-matching tasks the uni-part characters showed shorter RT than the bi-part characters. It was also observed that the frequency, which is regarded as a lexical variable, displayed a strong influence. This suggests that Chinese characters require lexical access in all tasks. This study also suggested that the phonological process is primary in visual word recognition; as there is a significant phonological effect in processing the Chinese bi-part characters, resulting in either the facilitation or inhibition of phonology due to the differing demands of the two tasks</jats:p>

The Differentiation of Phonological and Morphological Intrusion for the Two-Dimensional Orthography

“…This result would be expected if lexical access is required to determine either a word's meaning and its pronunciation when reading Hanja instead of utilizing pre-lexical (i.e., decoded) phonology. This conclusion was consistent with some of other research analyzed with only Chinese character lists (Feldman & Siok, 1999;Perfetti, Zhang, & Berent, 1992) and the mixed lists of Korean and Chinese (Jin, Lee, & Lee, 2013 for Chinese people; Lee & Lee, 2009 for Korean people).…”

“…However, what needs to complete the two-dimensional schema is to test some other effects of phonology and morphology i.e. as the effect of phonological rules (see also Lee et al, 2013;Lee et al, 2006 for more discussion), and the effect of radical in Chinese character (Jin, Lee, & Lee, 2013). More seriously, the further researches require the two-dimensional schema to be applied to other languages as Japanese, English, and etcetera.…”

“…Some the schemes of the writing systems as Hill (1967) and DeFrancis (1989) added the morphological dimension to categorize writing systems. According to Lee (1995), either phonological or morphological dimension is not sufficient to explain properties of writing system (see also Jin, Lee, & Lee, 2013 for more discussion). The two are independent to set up properties of writing system.…”