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The Phonograms' Genuine-Character Status: What the Embedded Semantic Radicals' Semantic Activation Live by
Meng Jiang1, Ya Tan2, Xia Wang1
1College of Language Intelligence (College of General Education), Sichuan International Studies University / Chongqing Shapingba District International Joint Institute of Brain Computer Language Interface, Chongqing, China.
Background:
In Chinese phonogram processing studies, it is widely accepted that both character and non-character semantic radicals could be semantically activated. However, little attention was paid to the underlying workings that enabled the semantic radicals' semantic activation.
Purpose:
The present study aimed to address the above issue by conducting two experiments.
Methods:
Experiment 1 was committed to confirming whether both character and non-character semantic radicals could be semantically activated when embedded in genuine Chinese phonograms. Experiment 2 was devoted to exploring whether the same semantic radicals could also be semantically activated when incorporated in Chinese pseudo-characters.
Results:
Results demonstrated that both character and non-character semantic radicals embedded in the genuine phonograms were semantically activated, but those placed in the pseudo-characters underwent no semantic activation, suggesting that the semantic activation of semantic radicals was genuine-character status-dependent, irrespective of the semantic radicals' characterhood.
Conclusion:
It seems that the genuine-character status and the meaning of the host phonogram have strong sway on the semantic activation of semantic radicals.
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