Chen Lin, Perfetti Charles, Xu Yi
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 220A, Education Bldg, 1310 S 6th St, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA.
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2024 Dec 6;54(1):1. doi: 10.1007/s10936-024-10117-1.
Research on alphabetic reading presents conflicting findings concerning the timing of orthographic and meaning processes in reading morphologically complex words. Chinese characters offer distinct visual cues for morphemes, enabling straightforward manipulations to examine orthographic and meaning processes. Guided by the Character-Word Dual Function model, we report four priming experiments that test how a reader's lexical quality impacts the emergence of orthographic and semantic priming effects in reading Chinese compounds. We conducted comparisons between native Chinese speakers and Chinese L2 learners, who vary in their quality of lexical representations. By manipulating the semantic transparency of prime-target pairs, we distinguished meaning from orthographic effects. The emergence of these effects was revealed by varying prime exposure durations. Orthographic effects emerged at shorter exposures for both L1 and L2 readers. However, meaning effects appeared at longer exposure durations only for L1 readers. These results confirm the generality of the orthography-first emergence of morphological effect in reading Chinese and suggest that readers' access to morphological meaning relations increases with experience.
关于字母文字阅读的研究在阅读形态复杂单词时正字法和语义加工的时间方面呈现出相互矛盾的结果。汉字为语素提供了独特的视觉线索，使得可以直接进行操作来检验正字法和语义加工过程。在“字-词双重功能”模型的指导下，我们报告了四项启动实验，这些实验测试了读者的词汇质量如何影响汉语复合词阅读中正字法和语义启动效应的出现。我们对母语为汉语的人和汉语第二语言学习者进行了比较，他们在词汇表征质量上存在差异。通过操纵启动刺激-目标刺激对的语义透明度，我们区分了语义效应和正字法效应。通过改变启动刺激的呈现持续时间来揭示这些效应的出现。对于第一语言和第二语言读者来说，正字法效应在较短的呈现时间内出现。然而，语义效应仅在较长的呈现持续时间内出现在第一语言读者中。这些结果证实了汉语阅读中形态效应正字法优先出现的普遍性，并表明读者对形态语义关系的通达随着经验的增加而增加。
