title: A psycholinguistic database for traditional Chinese character naming.
abstract: In this study, we aimed to provide a large-scale set of psycholinguistic norms for 3,314 traditional Chinese characters, along with their naming reaction times (RTs), collected from 140 Chinese speakers. The lexical and semantic variables in the database include frequency, regularity, familiarity, consistency, number of strokes, homophone density, semantic ambiguity rating, phonetic combinability, semantic combinability, and the number of disyllabic compound words formed by a character. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to examine the predictive powers of these variables for the naming RTs. The results demonstrated that these variables could account for a significant portion of variance (55.8%) in the naming RTs. An additional multiple regression analysis was conducted to demonstrate the effects of consistency and character frequency. Overall, the regression results were consistent with the findings of previous studies on Chinese character naming. This database should be useful for research into Chinese language processing, Chinese education, or cross-linguistic comparisons. The database can be accessed via an online inquiry system (http://ball.ling.sinica.edu.tw/namingdatabase/index.html).
authors: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei City, Taiwan.
authors: Ya-Ning
authors: YN
authors: Chang
authors: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei City, Taiwan.
authors: Chun-Hsien
authors: CH
authors: Hsu
authors: Department of Psychology, National Chengchi University, Taipei City, Taiwan.|Research Center for Mind, Brain and Learning, National Chengchi University, Taipei City, Taiwan.
authors: Jie-Li
authors: JL
authors: Tsai
authors: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei City, Taiwan.
authors: Chien-Liang
authors: CL
authors: Chen
authors: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei City, Taiwan. chiaying@gate.sinica.edu.tw.|Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei City, Taiwan. chiaying@gate.sinica.edu.tw.|Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. chiaying@gate.sinica.edu.tw.
authors: Chia-Ying
authors: CY
authors: Lee
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D009275:Names; D010700:Phonetics; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011930:Reaction Time; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012660:Semantics; D014956:Writing; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Chinese character naming; Chinese visual word recognition; Naming; Psycholinguistic norm