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›› 1998, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (04): 387-393.

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THE INFLUENCE OF CONCRETENESS OF WORDS ON WORD RECOGNITION

Chen Baoguo; Peng Danling(Deparmtent of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, 100875)   

  • Published:1998-12-25 Online:1998-12-25

Abstract: The experiments were performed to compare the speed and accuracy of lexical decision and naming for Chinese concrete and abstract nouns. The results showed:(1) the effect of concreteness existed in both the lexical decision and ndring tasks; (2) the effect of concreteness appeared only in higher frequency words. The authors gave possible explanation and suggested that the information of graphic, phonological and semantic are possibly interactive during Chinese word recognition.

Key words: effece of concreteness, frequency, lexical decision, naming