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The relationship between Chinese character frequency of occurrence and response latency: A direct prediction of the Forster's Search Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

Ee-Li Hong
Ee-Li Hong*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Monash University, AUSTRALIA
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Abstract

This paper describes an experiment concerned with the relationship between word frequency and the speed of word recognition for Chinese. The aim is to determine whether the nature of the frequency-response time relationship that has been found to exist for English can be expected to be observed for Chinese as well. Word frequency effect is discussed in relation to the network models and the Search model of lexical access. The outcome of the experiment provides evidence in support of the Search model of lexical access.

Type
Part III. Psycholinguistics
Information
South Pacific Journal of Psychology , Volume 10 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Asia-Pacific Language Research , 1999 , pp. 68 - 75
Copyright
Copyright © University of Papua New Guinea and the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Territory University, Australia 1999

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