Evaluating the Critical Period Influence on the Development of Semantic Radicals Awareness and Lexical Tones Awareness in Chinese Character Recognition

Siyan Lin; Xia Wang; Yumeng Zhang

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Lin,S.;Wang,X.;Zhang,Y. (2023). Evaluating the Critical Period Influence on the Development of Semantic Radicals Awareness and Lexical Tones Awareness in Chinese Character Recognition. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,2,662-668.

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Evaluating the Critical Period Influence on the Development of Semantic Radicals Awareness and Lexical Tones Awareness in Chinese Character Recognition

Siyan Lin *^,1, Xia Wang ², Yumeng Zhang ³

¹ Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
² Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 999077, China
³ Moray House School of Education and Sport, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JU, U.K

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https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/2/2022409

Abstract

The present study adopts the priming word-judging paradigm to investigate whether the critical period will influence radical and lexical tone awareness during the bilinguals' Chinese character recognition. Two types of bilinguals (simultaneous and sequential bilinguals) will be recruited as participants in the present study. The different features between these two types of participants are used to test the influence of the critical period. Through a Chinese character decision task experiment, we hypothesis that the critical period will influence the semantic radical and lexical tone awareness while processing the Chinese characters of bilinguals. In addition, this study will provide some advice to learning Chinese characters in second language acquisition.

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Chinese character recognition, bilinguals, semantic radical, critical period, lexical tone

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