, Taipei, Taiwan.
Department of Special Education and Counselling, The Education University of Hong Kong, 10 Lo Ping Road, NT, Ting Kok, Hong Kong.
Behav Res Methods. 2023 Sep;55(6):2989-3008. doi: 10.3758/s13428-022-01928-y. Epub 2022 Aug 24.
Several norms of psycholinguistic features of Chinese characters exist in Mandarin Chinese, but only a few are available in Cantonese or in the traditional script, and none includes semantic radical transparency ratings. This study presents subjective ratings of age-of-acquisition (AoA), familiarity, imageability, concreteness, and semantic radical transparency in 4376 Chinese characters. The single Chinese characters were rated individually on the five dimensions by 20 native Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong to form the Hong Kong Chinese Character Psycholinguistic Norms (HKCCPN). The split-half reliability and intra-class correlations testified to the high internal reliability of the ratings. Their convergent and discriminant patterns in relations to other psycholinguistic measures echoed previous findings reported on Chinese. There were high correlations for semantic radical transparency, imageability and concreteness, and moderate-to-high correlations for AoA and familiarity among subsets of items that had been collected in previous studies. Concurrent validity analyses showed convergence in predicting behavioral response times in various tasks (lexical decision, naming, and writing-to-dictation) when compared with other Chinese character databases. High predictive validity was shown in writing-to-dictation data from an independent sample of 20 native Cantonese speakers. Several objective psycholinguistic measures (character frequency, stroke number, number of words formed, number of homophones and number of meanings) were included in this database to facilitate its use. These new ratings extend the currently available norms in language and reading research in Cantonese Chinese for researchers, clinicians, and educators, as well as provide them with a wider choice of stimuli.
现代汉语普通话中有几种汉字的心理语言学特征规范,但粤语或繁体字中只有少数规范,而且都不包括语义偏旁透明度评级。本研究对 4376 个汉字进行了年龄习得(AoA)、熟悉度、形象性、具体性和语义偏旁透明度的主观评级。20 名香港本地粤语使用者分别对这五个维度对单个汉字进行了评级,形成了香港汉字心理语言学规范(HKCCPN)。评级的分半信度和组内相关系数证明了其高度的内部可靠性。它们与其他心理语言学测量指标的关系在一致性和区分性方面与之前关于汉字的研究结果相呼应。在之前研究中收集的项目子集之间,语义偏旁透明度、形象性和具体性之间存在高度相关性,AoA 和熟悉度之间存在中度到高度相关性。同时效度分析表明,与其他汉字数据库相比,在预测各种任务(词汇判断、命名和听写)的行为反应时间方面具有较高的预测效度。在来自 20 名本地粤语使用者的独立样本的听写数据中,显示出较高的预测效度。该数据库还包含了几个客观的心理语言学测量指标(字符频率、笔画数、组成单词数、同音字数和含义数),以方便使用。这些新的评级为粤语语言和阅读研究中的研究人员、临床医生和教育工作者提供了更广泛的刺激选择,也为他们提供了更广泛的选择。