Words, Morphemes, and Syllables in the Chinese Mental Lexicon.

Zhou, Xiaolin; Marslen-Wilson, William

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Publication Date: 1994

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Words, Morphemes, and Syllables in the Chinese Mental Lexicon.

Zhou, Xiaolin; Marslen-Wilson, William

Language and Cognitive Processes, v9 n3 p393-422 Aug 1994

Three experiments used the differential frequency effect as a diagnostic tool to investigate the mental representation of disyllabic compound words in Mandarin Chinese. The results indicated that, when both word frequency and morpheme frequency were held constant, high-frequency first syllables slowed responses to real words. (41 references) (MDM)

Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Foreign Countries, Language Processing, Mandarin Chinese, Morphemes, Psycholinguistics, Reaction Time, Structural Linguistics, Syllables, Word Frequency, Word Recognition

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)

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