How Semantic Radical in Chinese Language Facilitated Inductive Reasoning

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10.2991/ielss-19.2019.10How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Semantic Radical, Chinese Language, Inductive Reasoning.

Abstract

Sixteen healthy undergraduate students were employed to explore how semantic radical in Chinese language facilitated inductive reasoning. Pseduo Chinese characters were employed as experiment material, have of them with right orthography and half were wrong. Participants were asked to do the inductive resoning tasks based on these pseduo characters. The result showed that: semantic radical, be it physical or semantic features, facilitated the inductive inference and such facilitation was closely related to the processes of semantic radical as lexical information was accessed early than that of conceptual information. Furthermore, semantic radical facilitated the inductive inference independently without the access to the meaning of a certain character.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiaoxi Wang
AU  - Xie Ma
PY  - 2019/08
DA  - 2019/08
TI  - How Semantic Radical in Chinese Language Facilitated Inductive Reasoning
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Innovation and Education, Law and Social Sciences (IELSS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 51
EP  - 54
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/ielss-19.2019.10
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