Abstract: Naming task has been employed to investigate the phonetic similarand graphic similar priming effects. The result indicated that there was apriming effect between the primes and targets which were both phoneti-cally and graphically similar. A large priming effect was also found forthe characters which were phonetically similar. It suggests that there arephonological connections in the Chinese reader's lexicon. No significantpriming effect was observed for those which were graphically similar butphonetically different under the present experimental condition. The roleof graphic similarity is worth for further study.

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