Abstract: The experiment was designed to study primarily the effect of Chinesesentence context on word recognition using naming task. It was discoveredthat the type of sentence context, the defined degree of sentence contexton target word, word frequency and number of strokes all influencedword recognition and that the magnitude of contextual effect also dependedon the defined degrees of context, word frequency and number of strok-es. These findings illustrate that: (1) the locus of contextual effect maybe changed with different conditions; (2) subjects employ different str-ategies in different degrees of contextual definition on word. Some predic-tions from the Verification Model, Logogen Model and Two-process The-ory respectively were not supported by this research. The mechanisms ofChinese contextual effects on word recognition needs further research.

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