漢字系列再生課題において中国語母語話者は音韻と形態のどちらの情報を利用しやすいか : 日本語母語話者との比較

Which Information - Phonological or Orthographic - is Likely to Be Used by Native Chinese Speakers in a Kanji Recall Task?: A Comparison with Native Japanese Speakers

Ma Da

広島大学大学院人間社会科学研究科紀要. 教育学研究

Bulletin of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University. Studies in education

[ISSN] 2436-0333

[NCID] AA12909086

This study investigated whether Chinese and Japanese speakers rely on phonological and orthographic codes differently in a verbal serial recall task. Twenty-four native Chinese speakers and 24 native Japanese speakers participated in the task, which involved single-kanji words. The phonological and orthographic similarity of the set of kanji to be remembered was classified as follows: (1) phonologically similar and orthographically dissimilar; (2) phonologically dissimilar and orthographically similar; and (3) phonologically and orthographically dissimilar. The cognitive load was manipulated by increasing the length of the list of words to be remembered from 4 to 8 words. A clear effect of phonological similarity was observed in native Chinese speakers’ recall performance. That is, Chinese speakers relied heavily on phonological information in their maintenance of kanji words. Although the impact of phonological similarity was significant among Japanese speakers, the decrease was small. In addition, there was no significant difference in recall performance between phonologically and orthographically similar conditions. That is, Japanese speakers seemed not to rely heavily on phonology in the maintenance of kanji words. They also used orthographic information. This study directly compared native Chinese and Japanese speakers and found clear differences in the processing of kanji in the two languages.

Serial recall

Kanji

Phonological similarity effect

Chinese

Japanese

系列再生

漢字

音韻類似性効果

中国語

日本語

jpn

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[ISSN] 2436-0333

[NCID] AA12909086