Psychological Development and Education ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (1): 68-75.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2021.01.09

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The Effect of Subjective Phonetic-radical Neighborhood on Character Naming in Chinese Children

GU Chanyuan1,2, BI Hongyan1,2   

  1. 1. CAS Key Laboratony of Behauioral Science, Center for Brain Science and Learning Difficulties, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101;
    2. Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
  • Published:2021-01-22

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Abstract: To explore the impact of subjective phonetic-radical N on character naming in Chinese children, two naming tasks were carried out in 3rd, 5th and 7th grade students. In experiment 1, subjective N size was manipulated, results revealed that 3rd graders showed null N size effect; 5th graders showed a marginally significant inhibitory effect of subjective N size, naming characters from small subjective N faster than naming those from large subjective N; while 7th graders showed a significant inhibitory effect. In experiment 2, the independent variable was whether targets had higher-frequency neighbors, results exhibited that there was a significant inhibitory effect of higher-frequency neighbors, children needed longer reaction times for targets with higher-frequency neighbors than for those without higher-frequency neighbors. The above results suggested that the influence of subjective phonetic-radical N on character naming was gradually enhanced with age, there existed inhibitory effect of subjective N size in senior children. And this influence was related to the inhibitory effect of higher-frequency neighbors.

Key words: children, subjective phonetic-radical neighborhood, high-frequency neighbors, character naming

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