EXPRESS: Orthography-to-Semantics Consistency Modulates Phonological Effects in Chinese Character Recognition: A Corpus-Based Investigation.

IF 1.8 3区心理学 Q4 PHYSIOLOGY

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-09-20 DOI:10.1177/17470218261492872

Aygul Gheni, Min Dang, Guixiong Liu, Jianfeng Yang

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Abstract

Whether and how phonology contributes to semantic access in visual word recognition has long been a central issue in reading research. From a connectionist perspective, the present study used corpus-based measures to quantify the mappings between orthography, phonology, and semantics in Chinese and tested how these mappings predicted performance in a large-scale lexical decision task. The results showed that the contribution of phonology to meaning-related processing in Chinese character recognition is conditional on the reliability of orthography-to semantics mappings: when these mappings were relatively weak, phonology predicted reaction times more strongly. Further comparison among candidate mappings indicated that neither the phonology-to-semantics mapping nor sublexical phonology-to-orthography feedback interacted with orthography-to-semantics consistency, whereas whole character phonology-to-orthography feedback did. This effect emerged when orthography-to-semantics consistency was low.These findings provide new evidence for a connectionist account of meaning-related processing in Chinese.

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基于语料库的研究：正字法-语义一致性调节汉字识别中的语音效应。

语音是否以及如何促进视觉词识别中的语义获取一直是阅读研究的核心问题。从联系主义的角度出发，本研究采用基于语料库的方法量化汉语正字法、音系和语义之间的映射，并测试这些映射如何预测大规模词汇决策任务中的表现。结果表明，语音对汉字识别中意义相关加工的贡献取决于正字法-语义映射的可靠性：当正字法-语义映射相对较弱时，语音对反应时间的预测更强。进一步比较结果表明，语音到语义的映射和亚词汇语音到正字法的反馈都不与正字法到语义的一致性相互作用，而全字符语音到正字法的反馈与正字法到语义的一致性相互作用。当正字法与语义的一致性较低时，这种效应就会出现。这些发现为汉语意义相关加工的联结主义解释提供了新的证据。

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 医学-生理学

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3.50

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5.90%

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178

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3-8 weeks

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