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Psycholinguistic Norms for 3,783 Two-Character Words in Simplified Chinese

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ID4851283
AuthorsDangui Song (Zhejiang University), Degao Li (0000-0002-9511-3109, Qufu Normal University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume11
Issue4
Publication date2021-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSAGE Open (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/21582440211054495
OpenAlexW3208034261
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited73

Over 70% of the more than 56,000 most frequently used words in simplified Chinese are two-character words (2C-words). The present study collected data on subtitle frequency, number of strokes, number of meanings, familiarity, concreteness, imageability, age of acquisition, subjective frequency, subjective number of meanings (sNOMs), compositionality, emotional experience rating, sensory experience rating (SER), and semantic transparency (ST) for 3,783 commonly used 2C-words. Correlative patterns were identified between the 13 variables, all of which, with the exception of imageability, SER, and sNOM, were significantly predictive of the changes in participants' RTs in LDs on the target words. In conclusion, skilled readers' awareness of 2C-words' features such as concreteness, imageability, compositionality, sNOM, and ST is closely associated with their semantic perception of the constituent characters

Age of Acquisition · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Concreteness · Linguistics · Perception · Principle of compositionality · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Artificial Intelligence

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