Baluch B, Besner D
Middlesex University.
Can J Exp Psychol. 2001 Mar;55(1):63-9. doi: 10.1037/h0087353.
Previous work on single-word naming in university-level readers has shown that semantic factors affect the naming of low frequency words both in an alphabetic script like English, which is often irregular in terms of the spelling-sound correspondences, and in the syllabic Japanese Kana script, in which the spelling-sound correspondences are consistent. The present experiment shows that a semantic factor (imageability) affects naming time to both low- and high-frequency words in an alphabetic script (Persian) when the word is opaque (vowels not specified) but not when it is transparent (vowels specified). Other characteristics of opaque words that promote the use of semantics are discussed. At least in some orthographies, semantics play a larger role in single-word naming than previously thought.
先前针对大学水平阅读者的单字命名研究表明，语义因素会影响低频词的命名，这在像英语这样的字母文字中是如此，英语在拼写与发音对应方面往往不规则；在音节文字日语假名中也是如此，日语假名的拼写与发音对应是一致的。本实验表明，当单词不透明（元音未标注）时，语义因素（可想象性）会影响字母文字（波斯语）中低频词和高频词的命名时间，但当单词透明（元音已标注）时则不会。文中还讨论了不透明单词促进语义使用的其他特征。至少在某些文字体系中，语义在单字命名中所起的作用比之前认为的更大。
