Auditory Access Of Disyllabic Words in the Chinese Mental Lexicon

• Main Authors: Tsai,Pei-Wen, 蔡佩雯
• Other Authors: James Myers
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1998
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/56493977952937238503

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 語言學研究所 === 86 === This study explores the representation and access of disyllabic words inspoken Mandarin Chinese. Three experiments, using auditory lexical decisiontasks and a corss-modal priming auditory lexical decision task, were conducted.In Experiments 1 and 2, semantically transparent compounds were accessed fasterth an semantically opaque compounds because for semantically transparent compounds, the constituent meaning was highly related to the whole-word meaning.Monomo rphemic words were accessed faster than compounds because subjects didn'thave to split up the constituents of a monomorphemic word. The results of Experiment 3 support the Word Interactive-Activation Model mentioned in thisstudy. Compounds are split up into constituents in auditory access. For seman-tically opaque compounds, more steps are involved in auditory access becausevery low connection of constituent meanings to whole-word meanings. There is noconstituent split for monomorphemic words. Overall, Chinese disyllabic words are treated as whole words in auditory access, no matter if they are compounds or mono morphemic words. Semantic transparency, and morphological and ortho-graphic structures are factors which affect lexical representation and access.