动词性义符和名词性义符在汉字识别中作用的比较.pdf

Advances in Psychology 心理学进展, 2012, 2, 268-273 doi:10.4236/ap.2012.25042 Published Online November 2012 (/journal/ap.html) The Comparison of the Role of Verbal and Nounal Semantic Radicals in the Identification of Chinese Characters * Xiaoping Li, Chen Chen School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing * Email: xpli@, chenchen@ Received: Aug. 21st th th , 2012; revised: Sep. 16 , 2012; accepted: Sep. 25 , 2012 Abstract: The present study used a repeated measures design of 2 (target type: verbs, nouns) × 4 (prime type: R+S+, R+S–, R–S+, R–S–) to investigate the role of verbal and nounal semantic radicals in the identification of Chinese characters. The R+S+, R+S–, R–S+, and R–S– conditions indicated that the target characters were preceded by primes that 1) shared the targets’ radicals and were semantically related (R+S+); 2) shared the targets’ radicals but were not semantically related (R+S–); 3) did not shared the targets’ radicals but were se- mantically related (R–S+); and 4) did not share the targets’ radicals and were not semantically related (R–S–). The experiment results showed that 1) semantic radicals had a dual function in facilitating or inhibiting char- acter recognition; 2) verbal characters had stronger effects in facilitating character recognition than nouns; 3) verbal semantic radicals had a stronger facilitating effect than non-verbal radicals on character decision task. Keywords: Semantic Radical; Verb; Noun; Recognition of Chinese Character 动词性义符与名词性义符在汉字识别中