The Orthographic Decomposition of Chinese Characters and its Implicit Measure

• Main Authors: Yin-Hsiang Lan, 藍尹襄
• Other Authors: Chao-Ming Cheng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70793163149540837902

碩士 === 佛光大學 === 心理學系 === 95 === Most native Chinese users have experienced the phenomenon of the orthographic decomposition of a Chinese character (Chinese OD) which usually occurs after a period of visual inspection on the character. The phenomenon is also accompanied by a subjective feeling of uncertainty about the correctness of its spelling or orthographic composition. Chinese OD may result from stimulus satiation through prolonged inspection (Cheng & Wu, 1994). It seems that the OD is specific to the perception of Chinese characters but not to that of objects, human faces, and alphabetic scripts such as English words. Cheng and Wu (1994) have explored the Chinese OD by using a direct test. In order to avoid the shortcomings of self-reports, the OD was explored in this study by using a lexical decision task in which words are discriminated from homophonic pseudowords. Results show that the lexical decision task was desirable for detecting Chinese OD objectively and that the Chinese OD results because a long inspection of a Chinese character results in the generation of semantic and phonological information about its radicals that can be different from that about the character.