The psycholinguistic database for traditional Chinese character naming

Chang, Ya-Ning and Hsu, Chun-Hsien and Tsai, Jie-Li and Chen, Chien-Liang and Lee, Chia-Ying (2016) The psycholinguistic database for traditional Chinese character naming. Behavior Research Methods, 48 (1). pp. 112-122. ISSN 1554-351X

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Abstract

In this study, we aimed to provide a large-scale set of psycholinguistic norms for 3,314 traditional Chinese characters, along with their naming reaction times (RTs), collected from 140 Chinese speakers. The lexical and semantic variables in the database include frequency, regularity, familiarity, consistency, number of strokes, homophone density, semantic ambiguity rating, phonetic combinability, semantic combinability, and the number of disyllabic compound words formed by a character. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to examine the predictive powers of these variables for the naming RTs. The results demonstrated that these variables could account for a significant portion of variance (55.8 %) in the naming RTs. An additional multiple regression analysis was conducted to demonstrate the effects of consistency and character frequency. Overall, the regression results were consistent with the findings of previous studies on Chinese character naming. This database should be useful for research into Chinese language processing, Chinese education, or cross-linguistic comparisons. The database can be accessed via an online inquiry system (http://ball.ling.sinica.edu.tw/namingdatabase/index.html).

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Behavior Research Methods
Subjects:
?? naming chinese character naming psycholinguistic normchinese visual word recognition ??
ID Code:
73855
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Deposited On:
18 Jun 2015 05:46
Refereed?:
Yes
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Published
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15 Jul 2024 15:12