Neighborhood frequency effect on Chinese character recognition: An investigation of lexical decision tasks
Many studies have found that the orthographic neighborhood frequency (NF) effect plays a dominant role in word identification. Yet most research has been conducted on alphabetic languages rather than Chinese. We investigated the NF effect on Chinese character recognition in the context of lexical de...
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Published in | Social behavior and personality Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 1 - 9 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Palmerston North
Scientific Journal Publishers
01.02.2023
Scientific Journal Publishers, Ltd Scientific Journal Publishers Ltd |
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Summary: | Many studies have found that the orthographic neighborhood frequency (NF) effect plays a dominant role in word identification. Yet most research has been conducted on alphabetic languages rather than Chinese. We investigated the NF effect on Chinese character recognition in the context
of lexical decision tasks. Experiment 1 tested the NF effect in simple characters, Experiment 2 tested the NF effect in compound characters. Results showed that targets with higher frequency neighbors had longer response latencies for both simple characters and compound characters, and that
this inhibitory effect was more significant for low-frequency targets. The results overall imply there is an inhibitory NF effect existing in Chinese character recognition. The implications of the results are discussed with regard to character recognition. |
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Bibliography: | 0301-2212(20230208)51:2L.1;1- |
ISSN: | 0301-2212 1179-6391 |
DOI: | 10.2224/sbp.12121 |