TY - JOUR
T1 - A psycholinguistic database for traditional Chinese character naming
AU - Chang, Ya Ning
AU - Hsu, Chun Hsien
AU - Tsai, Jie Li
AU - Chen, Chien Liang
AU - Lee, Chia Ying
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by grants from the National Science Council, Grant Nos. NSC96-2628-H-001-058-MY3 and NSC102-2420-H-001-006-MY2, and by Academia Sinica Grant No. AS-102-TP-C06. We are grateful to Hsu-Wen Huang for her help in collecting the subjective ratings of familiarity and semantic ambiguity, and to Wen-Hsuan Chan and Angela Ku-Yuan Tzeng for their help in conducting the naming experiment. We also would like to thank the editor and three anonymous reviewers for their useful comments on this paper.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Psychonomic Society, Inc.
PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - In this study, we aimed to provide a large-scale set of psycholinguistic norms for 3,314 traditional Chinese characters, along with their naming reaction times (RTs), collected from 140 Chinese speakers. The lexical and semantic variables in the database include frequency, regularity, familiarity, consistency, number of strokes, homophone density, semantic ambiguity rating, phonetic combinability, semantic combinability, and the number of disyllabic compound words formed by a character. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to examine the predictive powers of these variables for the naming RTs. The results demonstrated that these variables could account for a significant portion of variance (55.8 %) in the naming RTs. An additional multiple regression analysis was conducted to demonstrate the effects of consistency and character frequency. Overall, the regression results were consistent with the findings of previous studies on Chinese character naming. This database should be useful for research into Chinese language processing, Chinese education, or cross-linguistic comparisons. The database can be accessed via an online inquiry system (http://ball.ling.sinica.edu.tw/namingdatabase/index.html).
AB - In this study, we aimed to provide a large-scale set of psycholinguistic norms for 3,314 traditional Chinese characters, along with their naming reaction times (RTs), collected from 140 Chinese speakers. The lexical and semantic variables in the database include frequency, regularity, familiarity, consistency, number of strokes, homophone density, semantic ambiguity rating, phonetic combinability, semantic combinability, and the number of disyllabic compound words formed by a character. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to examine the predictive powers of these variables for the naming RTs. The results demonstrated that these variables could account for a significant portion of variance (55.8 %) in the naming RTs. An additional multiple regression analysis was conducted to demonstrate the effects of consistency and character frequency. Overall, the regression results were consistent with the findings of previous studies on Chinese character naming. This database should be useful for research into Chinese language processing, Chinese education, or cross-linguistic comparisons. The database can be accessed via an online inquiry system (http://ball.ling.sinica.edu.tw/namingdatabase/index.html).
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U2 - 10.3758/s13428-014-0559-7
DO - 10.3758/s13428-014-0559-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 25630311
AN - SCOPUS:84921887060
SN - 1554-351X
VL - 48
SP - 112
EP - 122
JO - Behavior Research Methods
JF - Behavior Research Methods
IS - 1
ER -