中華心理學刊
民95 ， 48 卷， 4 期， 347-368

Chin-Hsing Tseng（National Kaohsiung Normal University）；Jenn-Yeu Chen（National Cheng-Kung University）；Yueh-Hsien Lin（Shu-Te University）

Abstract

Most contemporary models of spoken word recognition argue for the activation of a set of word candidates upon the input of word fragments and a subsequent process of lexical competition. The nature of such processes has been intensively studied in the western literature. However, there is a paucity of research on the issue with
Chinese subjects. In this phonological-priming study, Chinese-speaking participants made lexical decision to disyllabic visual targets after hearing monosyllabic or disyllabic prime words. In Experiments 1A and 1B, lexical decision responses were faster when the monosyllabic primes corresponded to the first syllables of the disyllabic targets than when they did not. In Experiment 2, lexical decision responses were faster when the
disyllabic primes were identical to the disyllabic targets than when the prime-target pairs shared nothing in common. However, lexical decision responses became slower when the prime-target pairs only shared the
first syllable than when they shared nothing in common. The results are discussed with reference to the empirical findings of earlier research and the contemporary models of spoken word recognition.

Keywords: phonological priming, lexical competition, spoken word recognition, Chinese lexicon.