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CN 11-1911/B

›› 2001, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (01): 1-6.

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THE TIME COURSE OF GRAPHIC, PHONOLOGICAL AND SEMANTIC INFORMATION PROCESSING IN CHINESE CHARACTER RECOGNITION(Ⅰ)

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

  • Published:2001-02-25 Online:2001-02-25

Abstract: The time course of graphic, phonological and semantic activation during highfreq uency Chinese character recognition was investigated in two priming-category jud gement tasks based individually on semantic, phonological information. The two e xperiments showed that the order of accessing lexical information of highfrequen cy Chinese characters is (1) graphic, (2) semantic, (3) phonological. The result s suggested the meaning of high-frequency Chinese characters can be accessed dir ectly by the activation of graphic information. Phonology may be activated autom atically, but it may take place after the access of character meaning.

Key words: Chinese character recognition, graphic, phonological, semantic, time course