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Age of acquisition effects on traditional Chinese character naming and lexical decision.
Chang, Ya-Ning; Lee, Chia-Ying.
Afiliación
  • Chang YN; MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 7EF, UK. yaningchang@gmail.com.
  • Lee CY; Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Psychon Bull Rev ; 27(6): 1317-1324, 2020 Dec.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32789580
ABSTRACT
Across languages, age of acquisition (AoA) is a critical psycholinguistic factor in lexical processing, reflecting the influence of learning experience. Early-acquired words tend to be processed more quickly and accurately than late-acquired words. Recently, an integrated view proposed that both the mappings between representations and the construction of semantic representations contribute to AoA effects, thus, predicting larger AoA effects for words with arbitrary mappings between representations as well as for tasks requiring greater semantic processing. We investigated how these predictions generalize to the Chinese language system that differs from alphabetic languages regarding the ease of mappings and semantic involvement in lexical processing. A cross-task investigation of differential psycholinguistic effects was conducted with large character naming and lexical decision datasets to establish the extent to which semantics is involved in the two tasks. We focused on examining the effect sizes of lexical-semantic variables and AoA, and the interaction between AoA and consistency. The results demonstrated that semantics influenced Chinese character naming more than lexical decision, which is in contrast with the findings related to English language, though, critically, AoA effects were more pronounced for character naming than for lexical decision. Additionally, an interaction between AoA and consistency was found in character naming. Our findings provide cross-linguistic evidence supporting the view of multiple origins of AoA effects in the language-processing system.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Psicolingüística / Lectura / Semántica / Aprendizaje Verbal / Lenguaje / Desarrollo del Lenguaje Tipo de estudio: Prognostic_studies Límite: Child / Child, preschool / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Revista: Psychon Bull Rev Asunto de la revista: PSICOLOGIA Año: 2020 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Reino Unido

Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Psicolingüística / Lectura / Semántica / Aprendizaje Verbal / Lenguaje / Desarrollo del Lenguaje Tipo de estudio: Prognostic_studies Límite: Child / Child, preschool / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Revista: Psychon Bull Rev Asunto de la revista: PSICOLOGIA Año: 2020 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Reino Unido