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1098.176 The roles of frequency and stroke number of Chinese character on learning by students
from alphabetic language background, Xin Jiang, Beijing Language and Culture University,
China
This study was designed to examine the roles of occur frequency and stroke number of Chinese
Character on learning by adult students from alphabetic language background. Subjects were ask
to write down the Pinyin and make a word or phrase for each of 100 learned characters which
were different in their occur frequency in textbook and stroke number. The results showed that the
main effects of both factors and their interaction were significant. It was suggested that both occur
frequency and stroke number played important roles on Character learning by alphabetic language
students, and this two factors' roles interacted each.
1098.177 The semantic raical’s consistent effect on Chinese phonograms’ recognition, Zhuyuan
Liang, Danling Peng, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
In Chinese phonograms, phonetic radicals indicate the characters’ pronunciation while the
semantic radicals indicate meaning. Using the semantic categorization task, three experiments
were done to investigate the effects of semantic radical’s consistency. In experiment 1, the
frequency effect was found but no consistency effect. In experiment 2, when the semantic radical’s
consistency is high and its density is large, the RT of recognition is shorter than the density is
small. In experiment 3, when the phonetic radical is regular, the RT for a high semantic radical
consistency character is shorter than a low one.
1098.178 The differences of word recognition on single- and multiple-character Chinese words for
students with learning disabilities, Shih-yi Chan, Jen-Lung Chuang, Taiwan, China
This study compares the performance differences on the target word recognition between words
and phrases displayed in the Graded Chinese Characters Recognition Tests for students with
learning disabilities in primary schools. The subjects include 25 fourth-graders and 25
sixth-graders. The main result of the study has revealed a significant difference on the amount of
the target Chinese characters recognition between two tests for both fourth and sixth graders with
learning disabilities. The study also discusses the characteristics of meaning-based of Chinese
words and phrases.
1098.179 Semantic activation of color morpheme in the opaque compound words, Xi Chen, Jijia
Zhang, South China Normal University, China
Semantic priming and stroop interference were used to probe color morpheme in the opaque
compound words. Results showed that, (1) there was competition in the mental resources between
color morpheme and whole word, which resulted in mutual inhibition, and the relative superiority
was displaced to each other, and finally the whole word was identified; (2) the processing of
morpheme in the compound word was influenced by structure of word and attribute of itself, and
there was superiority in the color morpheme even in the subordination of the word.
1098.180 Distribution of sentence focus and sentence accent in Mandarin, Yunjia Wang 1 , Min
Chu 2 , 1 Peking University, China; 2 Microsoft Research Asia, China
The distribution of sentence focus and the distribution of sentence accent in Mandarin are
investigated empirically. 300 utterances are studied, in each of which the semantic accents were
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