Age of acquisition effects on traditional Chinese character naming and lexical decision.

ABSTRACT: Across languages, age of acquisition (AoA) is a critical psycholinguistic factor in lexical processing, reflecting the influence of learning experience. Early-acquired words tend to be processed more quickly and accurately than late-acquired words. Recently, an integrated view proposed that both the mappings between representations and the construction of semantic representations contribute to AoA effects, thus, predicting larger AoA effects for words with arbitrary mappings between representations as well as for tasks requiring greater semantic processing. We investigated how these predictions generalize to the Chinese language system that differs from alphabetic languages regarding the ease of mappings and semantic involvement in lexical processing. A cross-task investigation of differen

SUBMITTER: Chang YN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7704508 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature