Studies of Psychology and Behavior ›› 2022, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (6): 732-738.DOI: 10.12139/j.1672-0628.2022.06.003

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The Role of Character Positional Frequency of Word Segmentation of Overlapping Ambiguous Strings in Chinese

Haibo CAO1,2, Liang REN3, Dan HAN3, Dongli JIA3, Jingxin WANG1,4,5,*()   

  1. 1. Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387
    2. School of Art, Hebei North University, Zhangjiakou 075000
    3. School of Politics and Law, Hebei North University, Zhangjiakou 075000
    4. Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387
    5. Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students’ Mental Development and Learning, Tianjin 300387
  • Received:2022-05-11 Online:2022-11-20 Published:2022-11-20
  • Contact: Jingxin WANG

词素位置概率在中文重叠歧义词识别中的作用

曹海波1,2, 任亮3, 韩丹3, 贾东立3, 王敬欣1,4,5,*()   

  1. 1. 教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地天津师范大学心理与行为研究院,天津 300387
    2. 河北北方学院艺术学院,张家口 075000
    3. 河北北方学院法政学院,张家口 075000
    4. 天津师范大学心理学部,天津 300387
    5. 学生心理发展与学习天津市高校社会科学实验室,天津 300387
  • 通讯作者: 王敬欣
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金项目(32271119);天津市研究生科研创新项目(2019YJSB128)

Abstract:

The present study examined the role of character positional frequency by using the lexical overlapping paradigm. In Experiment 1, three-character strings were presented and the middle characters were polyphones. Participants were asked to report the pronunciation and tone of the middle character. The results showed that the middle characters were more likely to pronounce as high character positional frequency. In Experiment 2, the manipulation was the same as in Experiment 1, except that the middle characters were not polyphones. The results showed that readers tended to report the pronunciation of the word based on high character positional frequency conditions. The findings reveal both the initial and the final character positional frequency play vital roles in word processing and support the multiple activation hypothesis of Chinese word recognition.

Key words: positional frequency, overlapping ambiguous strings, Chinese reading, word segmentation

摘要:

采用模糊词报告范式,探究词素位置概率在中文词汇识别中的作用。实验1操纵重叠歧义词(如“邮差距”)首、尾的词素位置概率,被试任务是快速报告重叠歧义词中间字的读音,结果发现,读者倾向于报告词素位置概率高的一侧字的读音。实验2操纵重叠歧义词(如“惹祸害”)首、尾的词素位置概率,被试任务是报告重叠歧义词其中的一个词,结果发现,读者倾向于报告词素位置概率高的一侧词的读音。结果表明,词素位置概率是中文词切分的有效线索,首、尾词素位置概率在词汇加工中均发挥了作用。

关键词: 词素位置概率, 重叠歧义词, 中文阅读, 词切分

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