Abstract: Using priming category judgment task which based on the graphic information of Chinese characters, the time course of graphic, phonological, semantic activation was investigated in the recognition of Chinese high-and-low frequency characters. The results suggested that the printed frequency of Chinese character influences the time course of graphic, phonological and semantic activation. For high frequency characters, graphic information is activated firstly and semantic information is available more quickly than phonological information. For low fre?鄄quency characters, graphic information is activated firstly, phonological and semantic activation can not be sepa?鄄rated obviously. The frequency effects may be explained by variations in the frequency functions that establish connection strengths among the orthography, phonology and semantic constituents in the mental lexicon.

Key words: Chinese character identification, frequency, orthography, phonology, semantic, time course.

摘要： 采用基于字形的启动范畴判断任务，通过变化SOA和不同的启动类型，考察高、低频汉字形音义激活的相对时间进程。结果表明，高频汉字形音义激活的时间顺序为字形—字义—字音；低频汉字字形的激活在先，字音、字义的激活时间未能分开。这说明汉字的书面使用频率是影响汉字形、音、义激活时间进程的重要因素。本研究进一步支持了汉字形—音、形—义连接强度受汉字使用频率影响的观点。

关键词: 汉字识别, 频率, 形音义, 时间进程