机构地区: 中国科学院心理研究所
出 处: 《心理学报》 2006年第6期791-797,共7页
摘 要: 拼音文字阅读中的“家族效应”是语音通达研究的一个重要角度,然而,汉字语音通达的家族效应研究却未见报道。本文运用快速命名的实验范式,对汉字形声字声旁家族大小对整字语音通达的影响进行了研究。结果发现汉字阅读中也存在家族效应,但是与拼音文字正好相反,声旁家族越大,反应时越长,在不规则汉字阅读中表现更为明显,显示了汉语语音通达有别于拼音文字的特殊性。 Introduction. Much research has shown that, in alphabetic writing systems, words or pseudo-words with large orthographic neighborhood size (N) are pronounced with shorter reaction time (RT) than those with smaller neighborhood size. However, it is not known whether the same effect can be found in the Chinese writing system since Chinese characters are not composed by "letters" which are commonly found in alphabetic writing systems. Eighty and half percent of the Chinese characters are semantic-phonetic compound characters comprising a semantic radical and a phonetic radical. Phonetic radicals indicate the phoneme of the characters, and in Chinese many characters have the same phonetic radical. For exampie, characters such as “炬、距、钜、拒、讵、柜” have the same phonetic radical “巨”. Although words like “柜” [gui4] do not have the same phoneme as other words mentioned above, it is only an irregular word. It is thus obvious that the Chinese writing system also contains orthographic neighborhood. The present study aimed to investigate whether the N effect existed in Chinese, and if it did, whether the effect was different between the Chinese and alphabetic writing systems. Method. A total of 29 undergraduate students (13 men, 16 women) from Beijing Normal University participated in the present study. All of them were native speakers of Mandarin Chinese. The experiment was run on a notebook PC using E-Prime software. A fixation point " + " was presented on the screen for 500ms, then the target character was displayed. Subjects were asked to read aloud the character as quickly and accurately as possible. Results and conclusion. The N effect was found when considering both RT and number of errors, but this effect was opposite to that found in the English writing systems, with a smaller nei should be initiated in order to make cross-language comparisons of the ghborhood size leading to shorter RT. More studies N effect