Meanings within meanings: skilled readers activate irrelevant meanings of radicals in Chinese
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Many characters in written Chinese incorporate components (radicals) that provide cues to meaning. These are often partial, and some misleading because they unrelated the character’s Previous studies have shown radicals influence reader’s processing of which occur (e.g., Feldman Siok J Memory Language 40(4):559–576, 1999). We investigated whether readers automatically activate semantic information associated with a radical even when it is irrelevant meaning, using modified version Van Orden (Memory Cogn 15(3):181–198, 1987) task auditory relatedness ratings on test items. Fifty-one Mandarin speakers participated study. On each trial saw reference category such as “animal” prior seeing character then indicated target was member category. Decisions were slower less accurate not contained is. For example, if “found kitchen,” answer for ? “ticket” no; however contains ? “knife”. patterns suggest process semantics relevant meaning character. The results further verify role raise questions repetitions experience idiosyncrasies script may result influencing
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عنوان ژورنال: Reading and Writing
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1573-0905', '0922-4777']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-022-10260-y