从书序
前言
Abstract
Contents
Chapter 1 Conceptions of Homophony in Experiments on Visual
Chinese Lexical Access: A Retrospect
1.1 Homophony as a Vague Concept
1.2 Homophony Defined Differently in Experimental Studies
1.2.1 In primed naming
1.2.2 In primed lexical, characteristic or idiomatic decision
1.2.3 With phonologically mediated semantic priming
1.2.4 With backward visual masking
1.2.5 In synonymic, homophonic, semantic or phonological judgment
1.2.6 In semantic categorization, primed semantic-or phonological-category
judgment, or verification
1.3 Summary
Chapter 2 Significance of Tone in Chinese Lexical Access: A Closer
Look
2.1 Hemispherically Lateralized and Lexically Biased Tonal
Representation
2.2 Tonal Representation in Mental Lexicon
2.3 Tonal Representation in Working Memory
2.4 Perceptual Availability of Tonal Information
2.5 Critique
Chapter 3 Experimental Tasks and Models for Chinese Lexical Access:
A Critique
3.1 Validity of Experimental Tasks
3.1.1 Modality for Experimental Tasks
3.1.2 Vocalization in experimental tasks
3.1.3 Explicitness of phonological manipulation
3.2 Models for Chinese Word Access
3.2.1 The Multilevel Interactive-Activation Model
3.2.2 The Interactive Constituency Model
3.2.3 Zhou et al. 1999 generic model
3.2.4 Taft and van Graan''s 1998 framework for meaning access
3.3 Summary
Chapter 4 Research Question, Hypothesis and Design
4.1 Research Question
4.2 Research Hypothesis
4.3 Research Design
4.4 Summary
Chapter 5 Experiment 1: Homophony in Reading Isolate Chinese
Characters
5.1 Experiment IA
5.1.1 Method
5.1.2 Results
5.1.3 Discussion
5.2 Experiment 1B
5.2.1 Method
5.2.2 Results
5.2.3 Discussion
5.3 General discussion
Chapter 6 Experiment 2: Homophony in Reading Characters in
Chinese Idioms
6.1 Method
6.1.1 Subjects
6.1.2 Apparatus
6.1.3 Procedure
6.2 Results
6.3 Discussion
Chapter 7 Experiment 3: Homophony in Reading Characters in
Two-character Words in Chinese Sentences
7.1 Preliminary Study
7.1.1 Method
7.1.2 Results
7.2 Method
7.2.1 Subjects
7.2.2 Apparatus
7.2.3 Procedure
7.3 Results
7.4 Discussion
Chapter 8 Conclusion
8.1 Perceptual Salience of Tone in Contextualized Chinese Reading
8.2 Chinese Homophony Contextually Defined in Reading
Experiments
8.3 Phonological Effects in Contextualized Chinese Reading
8.4 Absence of Phonological Mediation for Meaning Access
in Reading Chinese
References
Appendices
Appendix A Distribution in Tonal Similarity and Compounding
Possibility of the Paired Base Characters in Groups 1-5
of Experiment 1A and 1B
Appendix B Data from the Survey on Semantic-association Degrees
Between the Paired Base Characters in Experiment 1A
and IB
Appendix C Multiple Comparisons by Games-HoweU on the Means
of Semantic Association Degrees of the Paired Base
Characters Between Groups 1-5 in Experiment 1A and
1B
Appendix D Multiple Comparisons by Games-Howell on Frequency
Means of Substituted Character 2 Between Groups 1-5 in
Experiment 1A and 1B
Appendix E Materials Used in Experiment IA and 1B and Relevant
Information 267
Appendix F~ Computer Timing Precision Tests for Experiments 1A
2 and the Preliminary Study for Experiment 3
Appendix F2 Computer Timing Precision Tests for Experiments 1B
and 3
Appendix G Error Rates and Their Z-scores of Subjects in
Experiments 1A and 2
Appendix H Error Rates and Their Z-scores of Items in Experiment
1A and 1B
Appendix I Randomized-blockAverage RTs and Error Rates of
Subjects for Groups 1-4 in Experiment 1A
Appendix J Error Rates and Their Z-scores of Subjects in
Experiments 1B and 3
Appendix K Randomized-block Average RTs and Error Rates of
Subjects for Groups 1-4 in Experiment 1B
Appendix L Familiarity Judgment on Base Idioms for Experiment 2
Appendix M Multiple Comparisons by Games-Howell of Frequency
Means of Presented Character 3 Between Groups 1-5
in Experiment 2
Appendix N Materials for Experiment 2 and Relevant Information
Appendix O Error Rates and Their Z-scores of Items in Experiment 2
Appendix P Randomized-block Average RTs and Error Rates of
Subjects for Groups 1-4 in Experiment 2
Appendix Q Sentences in the Preliminary Study for Experiment 3
Appendix R K-Means Cluster Analysis on Subjects'' Error Rates in
the Preliminary Study for Experiment 3
Appendix S Subjects'' Error Rates in Contrast Between Experiments
1A and 2 and the Preliminary Study for Experiment 3
Appendix T Error Rates and Mean RTs of Fluent Sentences in the
Preliminary Study for Experiment 3
Appendix U Data Related to the 3 Categories of Target Characters in
Experimental and Control Groups of Experiment 3
Arranged for Non-parametric Tests
Appendix W Error Rates and Their Z-scores of Items in Experiment 3
Appendix X Randomized-block Average RTs and Error Rates of
Subjects for Groups 1-4 in Experiment 3
Appendix Y Randomized-block Average RTs and Error Rates of
Subjects for Experimental and Control Groups by
Target CharaCter Categories in Experiment 3