Table 2.
Stimuli characteristics for the semantic task.
| Frequency |
Acquisition term |
Strokes |
Morpheme-word association |
Word association | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Word 1 | Word 2 | Word 1 | Word 2 | Word 1 | Word 2 | M1W1 | M2W1 | M1W2 | M2W2 | - | |
| M+S+ | 11.2(13.9) | 11.3(12.4) | 4.8(2.6) | 4.8(2.3) | 15.9(4.3) | 15.5(4.2) | 5.3(0.7) | 5.7(0.5) | 5.2(0.6) | 5.6(0.4) | 5.7(0.5) |
| M+S− | 8.2(6.9) | 8.0(7.5) | 5.6(2.6) | 5.4(2.5) | 15.0(5.1) | 15.3(5.9) | 5.3(0.6) | 5.1(0.6) | 5.2(0.7) | 5.1(0.6) | 2.2(0.3) |
| M−S+ | 11.2(9.3) | 10.6(10.4) | 4.9(2.3) | 4.8(2.4) | 15.7(4.4) | 17.1(4.6) | 5.2(0.7) | 5.8(0.4) | 5.5(0.8) | 5.6(0.7) | 5.8(0.4) |
| M−S− | 10.3(7.5) | 10.3(10.8) | 5.3(2.8) | 4.8(2.4) | 16.5(4.3) | 15.9(3.5) | 5.3(0.7) | 5.2(0.9) | 5.2(0.8) | 5.3(0.7) | 1.9(0.4) |
Note: Frequency is the number of times a word shown in Chinese language textbooks from Grade 1 to Grade 6 in primary school. Acquisition term is the term when a word is first shown in Chinese language textbooks. Stroke is the sum of the strokes of the two characters in a word. Morpheme-Word Association and Word association are on a 7-point scale. M1W1 = first morpheme of the first word; M2W1 = second morpheme of the first word; M1W2 = first morpheme of the second word; M2W2 = second morpheme of the second word.