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題名 Number of Meanings and Number of Senses: An ERP Study of Sublexical Ambiguities in Reading Chinese Disyllabic Compounds
作者 Huang, Hsu-Wen
李佳穎
Lee, Chia-Ying
貢獻者 心腦中心
關鍵詞 Chinese compounds; ERPs; N400; homonymy; polysemy; sublexical semantic ambiguity
日期 2018-03
上傳時間 14-Sep-2018 16:06:17 (UTC+8)
摘要 In English, an extensive body of work in both behavioral and neuropsychological domains has produced strong evidence that homonymy (words with many distinct meanings) and polysemy (many related senses) are represented, retrieved, and processed differently in the human brain. In Chinese, most words are compounds, and the constituent characters within a compound word can have different meanings and/or related senses on their own. Thus, in order to resolve lexical ambiguity in Chinese, one has to consider the composition of constituent characters, as well as how they contribute to whole word reading, known as "sublexical ambiguity." This study investigates how two types of sublexical ambiguity affect Chinese word processing. The number of meanings (NOM) and the number of senses (NOS) corresponding to the first character of Chinese compounds were manipulated in a lexical decision task. The interactions between NOM and NOS were observed in both behavioral results and N400s, in which NOM disadvantage effect was found for words with few-senses only. On the other hand, the NOS facilitation effect was significant for words with multiple-meanings (NOM > 1) only. The sublexical ambiguity disadvantage suggested that semantically unrelated morphemes are represented as separate entries. For characters with multiple meanings, one orthographic form is associated with more than one morphemic representation. In contrast, the sublexical sense advantage supported the idea that semantically related senses that shared a morphological root are represented within a single entry. The more senses listed in a morphological root, the stronger representation will be formed. These results suggest that two types of sublexical ambiguities are represented and processed differently in Chinese word recognition models and also demonstrate that how they interact with each other in the mental lexicon.
關聯 Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 324
PMID: 29651260
資料類型 article
DOI https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00324
dc.contributor 心腦中心
dc.creator (作者) Huang, Hsu-Wenen_US
dc.creator (作者) 李佳穎zh_TW
dc.creator (作者) Lee, Chia-Yingen_US
dc.date (日期) 2018-03
dc.date.accessioned 14-Sep-2018 16:06:17 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 14-Sep-2018 16:06:17 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 14-Sep-2018 16:06:17 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/120093-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) In English, an extensive body of work in both behavioral and neuropsychological domains has produced strong evidence that homonymy (words with many distinct meanings) and polysemy (many related senses) are represented, retrieved, and processed differently in the human brain. In Chinese, most words are compounds, and the constituent characters within a compound word can have different meanings and/or related senses on their own. Thus, in order to resolve lexical ambiguity in Chinese, one has to consider the composition of constituent characters, as well as how they contribute to whole word reading, known as "sublexical ambiguity." This study investigates how two types of sublexical ambiguity affect Chinese word processing. The number of meanings (NOM) and the number of senses (NOS) corresponding to the first character of Chinese compounds were manipulated in a lexical decision task. The interactions between NOM and NOS were observed in both behavioral results and N400s, in which NOM disadvantage effect was found for words with few-senses only. On the other hand, the NOS facilitation effect was significant for words with multiple-meanings (NOM > 1) only. The sublexical ambiguity disadvantage suggested that semantically unrelated morphemes are represented as separate entries. For characters with multiple meanings, one orthographic form is associated with more than one morphemic representation. In contrast, the sublexical sense advantage supported the idea that semantically related senses that shared a morphological root are represented within a single entry. The more senses listed in a morphological root, the stronger representation will be formed. These results suggest that two types of sublexical ambiguities are represented and processed differently in Chinese word recognition models and also demonstrate that how they interact with each other in the mental lexicon.en_US
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dc.relation (關聯) Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 324
dc.relation (關聯) PMID: 29651260
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Chinese compounds; ERPs; N400; homonymy; polysemy; sublexical semantic ambiguityen_US
dc.title (題名) Number of Meanings and Number of Senses: An ERP Study of Sublexical Ambiguities in Reading Chinese Disyllabic Compoundsen_US
dc.type (資料類型) article
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00324
dc.doi.uri (DOI) https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00324