THE POLYSEMY EFFECT IN CHINESE ONE-CHARACTER WORD IDENTIFICATION
汉语多义单字词的识别优势效应

The effects of polysemy and word frequency in the identification of Chinese one- character word were examined in lexical decision, naming tasks and go-no go nami ng task. The results showed that significant polysemous advantage effects were o bserved in all tasks. The interaction appeared with the polysemy effects being p roduced only for low-frequency words in lexical decision task and naming task, b ut appeared for both low and high frequency words in the go no go naming task . The pattern of results of all three tasks was almost the same. According to th e parallel distributed processing models, a possible explanation of polysemy eff ects was proposed.