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題名 Sublexical ambiguity effect in reading Chinese disyllabic compounds
作者 Tsai, Jie-Li;Huang, Hsu-Wen;Lee, Chia-Ying;Tzeng, Ovid J.-L.
蔡介立
貢獻者 心理系
關鍵詞 Chinese compounds; Sublexical semantic ambiguity; ERPs; N400; Laterality
日期 2011
上傳時間 8-Apr-2015 15:31:56 (UTC+8)
摘要 For Chinese compounds, neighbors can share either both orthographic forms and meanings, or orthographic forms only. In this study, central presentation and visual half-field (VF) presentation methods were used in conjunction with ERP measures to investigate how readers solve the sublexical semantic ambiguity of the first constituent character in reading a disyllabic compound. The sublexical ambiguity of the first character was manipulated while the orthographic neighborhood sizes of the first and second character (NS1, NS2) were controlled. Subjective rating of number of meanings corresponding to a character was used as an index of sublexical ambiguity. Results showed that low sublexical ambiguity words elicited a more negative N400 than high sublexical ambiguity words when words were centrally presented. Similar patterns were found when words were presented to the left VF. Interestingly, different patterns were observed for pseudowords. With left VF presentation, high sublexical ambiguity psudowords showed a more negative N400 than low sublexical ambiguity pseudowords. In contrast, with right VF presentation, low sublexical ambiguity pseudowords showed a more negative N400 than high sublexical ambiguity pseudowords. These findings indicate that a level of morphological representation between form and meaning needs to be established and refined in Chinese. In addition, hemispheric asymmetries in the use of word information in ambiguity resolution should be taken into account, even at sublexical level.
關聯 Brain and Language - BRAIN LANG , vol. 117, no. 2, pp. 77-87
資料類型 article
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2011.01.003
dc.contributor 心理系
dc.creator (作者) Tsai, Jie-Li;Huang, Hsu-Wen;Lee, Chia-Ying;Tzeng, Ovid J.-L.
dc.creator (作者) 蔡介立zh_TW
dc.date (日期) 2011
dc.date.accessioned 8-Apr-2015 15:31:56 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 8-Apr-2015 15:31:56 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 8-Apr-2015 15:31:56 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/74391-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) For Chinese compounds, neighbors can share either both orthographic forms and meanings, or orthographic forms only. In this study, central presentation and visual half-field (VF) presentation methods were used in conjunction with ERP measures to investigate how readers solve the sublexical semantic ambiguity of the first constituent character in reading a disyllabic compound. The sublexical ambiguity of the first character was manipulated while the orthographic neighborhood sizes of the first and second character (NS1, NS2) were controlled. Subjective rating of number of meanings corresponding to a character was used as an index of sublexical ambiguity. Results showed that low sublexical ambiguity words elicited a more negative N400 than high sublexical ambiguity words when words were centrally presented. Similar patterns were found when words were presented to the left VF. Interestingly, different patterns were observed for pseudowords. With left VF presentation, high sublexical ambiguity psudowords showed a more negative N400 than low sublexical ambiguity pseudowords. In contrast, with right VF presentation, low sublexical ambiguity pseudowords showed a more negative N400 than high sublexical ambiguity pseudowords. These findings indicate that a level of morphological representation between form and meaning needs to be established and refined in Chinese. In addition, hemispheric asymmetries in the use of word information in ambiguity resolution should be taken into account, even at sublexical level.
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dc.relation (關聯) Brain and Language - BRAIN LANG , vol. 117, no. 2, pp. 77-87
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Chinese compounds; Sublexical semantic ambiguity; ERPs; N400; Laterality
dc.title (題名) Sublexical ambiguity effect in reading Chinese disyllabic compounds
dc.type (資料類型) articleen
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.01.003en_US
dc.doi.uri (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2011.01.003en_US