The modulation of semantic transparency on the recognition memory for two-character Chinese words

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• 作者：Yi-Jhong Han (1)
  Shuo-chieh Huang (1)
  Chia-Ying Lee (2)
  Wen-Jui Kuo (3)
  Shih-kuen Cheng (1)
  
• 关键词：Semantic transparency ; Recognition memory ; Remember/know
• 刊名：Memory & Cognition
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：November 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：42
• 期：8
• 页码：1315-1324
• 全文大小：273 KB
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• 作者单位：Yi-Jhong Han (1)
  Shuo-chieh Huang (1)
  Chia-Ying Lee (2)
  Wen-Jui Kuo (3)
  Shih-kuen Cheng (1)
  
  1. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, No. 300, Jhongda Rd., Jhongli City, Taoyuan County, 32001, Taiwan
  2. Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
  3. Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
  
• ISSN：1532-5946

文摘

This study demonstrated that semantic transparency as a linguistic property modulates the recognition memory for two-character Chinese words, with opaque words (i.e., words whose meanings cannot be derived from constituent characters—e.g., “[/guang/, light][/gun/, stick]- bachelor) remembered better than transparent words (i.e., words whose meanings can be derived from constituent characters—e.g., “[/cha/, tea][/bei/, cup]- teacup). In Experiment 1, the participants made lexical decisions on transparent words, opaque words, and nonwords in the study and then engaged in an old/new recognition test. Experiment 2 employed a concreteness judgment as the encoding task to ensure equivalent semantic processing for opaque and transparent words. In Experiment 3, the neighborhood size of the two-character words was manipulated together with their semantic transparency. In all three experiments, opaque words were found to be better remembered than transparent words. We concluded that the conceptual incongruence between the meanings of a whole word and its constituent characters made opaque words more distinctive and, hence, better remembered than transparent words.