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Background:

  • Previous research established compositional meaning construction in Germanic languages.
  • The application of these findings to Chinese, with its less systematic constituent meanings, remained unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if Chinese compound processing involves compositional meaning construction.
  • To quantify the ease of integrating constituent character meanings into compound meanings using computational methods.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a computational model based on distributional semantics to quantify the integration ease of Chinese character meanings.
  • Used this metric to predict human judgments on novel compound sensibility and lexical decision latencies for both novel and existing compounds.

Main Results:

  • The computational metric successfully predicted sensibility judgments for novel Chinese compounds.
  • Lexical decision latencies for rejecting novel compounds and recognizing existing compounds were also predicted by the metric.
  • These findings indicate compositional processing in Chinese compound recognition and production.

Conclusions:

  • A compositional process is active in Chinese compound processing, extending beyond tasks explicitly requiring meaning combination.
  • A generic statistical learning framework can effectively model the functional roles of Chinese compound constituents.
  • Routine meaning construction offers advantages for processing Chinese compounds during reading.