The Effect Of Phonetic Radical’s Information On Phonogram Recognition In Sentence Reading

Many studies have used the phonogram to explore the role of phonological information on semantic access.However,as a special orthographic unit,the phonetic radical contains not only phonological information but also orthographic information.But previous studies have not separated these two types of information contained in the phonetic radical,so the roles of the two may have been confused.This study will further explore the role of phonetic radical’s information in phonogram recognition through two eye movement experiments.Experiment 1 was a 2(phonological regularity: regular,irregular)by 4(Type of phonetic radical’ substitution: consistency condition,phonological condition,orthographic condition,unrelated condition)within-participants design,to separated the role of phonology and orthography of phonetic radical through the error interruption paradigm.In the total fixation time,the results showed that the time of the orthographic condition was shorter than unrelated condition,while the phonological effect only appeared in the regular phonetic phonograms.Experiment 2 using the same experimental design as Experiment 1.The boundary paradigm was used to further explore the role of phonetic radicals in phonograms recognition in the early processing stage.The results showed that In terms of single fixation duration,first fixation duration and gaze duration,the phonological and orthographic condition has earlier and more pronounced preview effects,and the facilitating effect of the phonological condition was not regulated by the regularity of the target word.In combination with the results of Experiment 1 and Experiment 2,it is shown that there is a sub-lexical phonological pathway in phonograms recognition.The role of orthographic and phonological information of phonetic radicals appears steadily in the early and late stages of recognizing phonograms,and the role of phonological information of phonetic radicals is regulated by the regularity of phonograms in the late stages of recognizing phonograms.Therefore,this study supports the hypothesis of the dual-route model.