Ziegler J C, Tan L H, Perry C, Montant M
Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Psychol Sci. 2000 May;11(3):234-8. doi: 10.1111/1467-9280.00247.
Does phonology play a role in silent reading? This issue was addressed in Chinese. Phonology effects are less expected in Chinese than in alphabetical languages like English because the basic units of written Chinese (the characters) map directly into units of meaning (morphemes). This linguistic property gave rise to the view that phonology could be bypassed altogether in Chinese. The present study, however, shows that this is not the case. We report two experiments that demonstrate pure phonological frequency effects in processing written Chinese. Characters with a high phonological frequency were processed faster than characters with a low phonological frequency, despite the fact that the characters were matched on orthographic (printed) frequency. The present research points to a universal phonological principle according to which phonological information is routinely activated as a part of word identification. The research further suggests that part of the classic word-frequency effect may be phonological.
语音学在默读中起作用吗？这个问题在中国已得到探讨。相较于英语等字母语言，汉语中语音学效应的预期较低，因为中文书面语的基本单位（汉字）直接对应意义单位（语素）。这种语言特性导致了一种观点，即汉语中语音学可以完全被绕过。然而，本研究表明情况并非如此。我们报告了两项实验，这些实验证明了在处理中文书面语时存在纯粹的语音频率效应。尽管这些汉字在正字法（印刷）频率上是匹配的，但语音频率高的汉字比语音频率低的汉字处理得更快。本研究指出了一个普遍的语音学原则，即语音信息作为单词识别的一部分会被常规激活。该研究进一步表明，经典的单词频率效应的一部分可能是语音学方面的。
