The Chinese Lexicon Project: A megastudy of lexical decision performance for 25,000+ traditional Chinese two-character compound words.
Behav Res Methods
; 49(4): 1503-1519, 2017 08.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27734329
Using a megastudy approach, we developed a database of lexical variables and lexical decision reaction times and accuracy rates for more than 25,000 traditional Chinese two-character compound words. Each word was responded to by about 33 native Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong. This resource provides a valuable adjunct to influential mega-databases, such as the Chinese single-character, English, French, and Dutch Lexicon Projects. Three analyses were conducted to illustrate the potential uses of the database. First, we compared the proportion of variance in lexical decision performance accounted for by six word frequency measures and established that the best predictor was Cai and Brysbaert's (PLoS One, 5, e10729, 2010) contextual diversity subtitle frequency. Second, we ran virtual replications of three previously published lexical decision experiments and found convergence between the original experiments and the present megastudy. Finally, we conducted item-level regression analyses to examine the effects of theoretically important lexical variables in our normative data. This is the first publicly available large-scale repository of behavioral responses pertaining to Chinese two-character compound word processing, which should be of substantial interest to psychologists, linguists, and other researchers.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
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Pattern Recognition, Visual
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Reaction Time
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Decision Making
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Language
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Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Asia
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En
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Behav Res Methods
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CIENCIAS DO COMPORTAMENTO
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2017
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Article
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