| C671 Ying Liu Threshold-Style Processing Threshold-Style Processing of Chinese Characters for Adult Second Language Learners (2009) | |||||||||||||||||
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| To assess the learning of word form and meaning in an unfamiliar writing system, we carried out primed naming experiments with learners of Chinese at the end of their first and second terms of Chinese class at an American university. The subjects were required to name a target Chinese character after a prime character was presented for 500 ms. There were three priming conditions defined by the relation between prime and target: orthographically similar, homophonic and semantically related. At the end of the first term, there was a significant facilitation on naming speed in the orthographic condition, but not in the homophonic or semantic conditions. However, at the end of the second term, orthographical facilitation disappeared. Instead, naming speed was facilitated by semantically related primes. A threshold style framework was proposed to illustrate the processing of Chinese orthography, phonology and semantics for second language learners. | |||||||||||||||||
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