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Advances in Psychology 心理学进展, 2012, 2, 163-172 doi:10.4236/ap.2012.24026 Published Online September 2012 (/journal/ap.html) The Mechanism Underlying Chinese Orthographic Decomposition Chao-Ming Cheng1,2, Hwei-Deh Lai1 1Department of Psychology, Fo Guang University, Yilan County 2Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei Email: cmcheng@.tw Received: Jul. 28th th th , 2012; revised: Aug. 14 , 2012; accepted: Aug. 26 , 2012 Abstract: Chinese Orthographic Decomposition refers to a sense of uncertainty about the writing of a well-learned Chinese character following a prolonged inspection of the character. An implicit test using a lexical-decision task, in which 2-character words were discriminated from 2-character pseudo-words, was used to detect the orthographic decomposition. An index designated as β was developed to measure the rate of decomposition. Results of this study show that repeated presentations of a character consisting of 2 radi- cals (the LR-character) resulted in a larger value of βthan did those of a character consisting of a single radi- cal. However, the value of β for a LR-character was independent of the pro-nounceableness and meaning- fulness of its constituent radicals. These results suggest that Chinese orthographic decomposition is due to the absence of a direct link between the orthography and the sound pattern of Chinese characters. Keywords: Orthographic Decomposition/Satiation; Chinese-Character Processing; Reading and Writing of Chinese