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The Role of Character Positional Frequency of Word Segmentation of Overlapping Ambiguous Strings in Chinese
Received date: 2022-05-11
Online published: 2023-01-17
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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.
Haibo CAO , Liang REN , Dan HAN , Dongli JIA , Jingxin WANG . The Role of Character Positional Frequency of Word Segmentation of Overlapping Ambiguous Strings in Chinese[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2022 , 20(6) : 732 -738 . DOI: 10.12139/j.1672-0628.2022.06.003
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