Undergraduate Thesis: The effect of boundedness on reading Chinese words across primary grades
| Title | The effect of boundedness on reading Chinese words across primary grades |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tse, Wai-ching 謝慧貞 |
| Issue Date | 2010 |
| Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
| Abstract | This study was to investigate the effect of boundedness on reading Chinese words across primary grades in Hong Kong. Morphological awareness is crucial for complex word learning, in which meanings of morphemes are interpreted and stored. As bound morphemes cannot stand-alone as independent words and they always appear as constituent characters in complex words, their meanings may not be able to be directly accessible and could only be accessed when the morphemes are encountered in several complex words with related meanings. Therefore, increase in language exposure was hypothesized to allow a person to retrieve meanings of bound morphemes and store them as individual words. This was investigated by lexical decision task, reading aloud of complex words and reading aloud of constituent morphemes in the present study. Results of t-tests showed that there was effect of boundedness on accuracy rate in reading aloud complex words and constituent morphemes, but not in lexical decision task. Implications of the findings on the development of word reading would be discussed. Mental representations of morpheme meanings became clearer in higher grades for both bound and free morphemes due to increased language exposure. |
| Description | "A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, June 30, 2010." Includes bibliographical references (p. 30-31). Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2010. |
| Degree | Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences |
| Subject | Chinese language -- Morphemics. School children -- Language. |
| Dept/Program | Speech and Hearing Sciences |
| dc.contributor.author | Tse, Wai-ching |
|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | 謝慧貞 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-01T01:14:10Z |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-01T01:14:10Z |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 |
| dc.description.abstract | This study was to investigate the effect of boundedness on reading Chinese words across primary grades in Hong Kong. Morphological awareness is crucial for complex word learning, in which meanings of morphemes are interpreted and stored. As bound morphemes cannot stand-alone as independent words and they always appear as constituent characters in complex words, their meanings may not be able to be directly accessible and could only be accessed when the morphemes are encountered in several complex words with related meanings. Therefore, increase in language exposure was hypothesized to allow a person to retrieve meanings of bound morphemes and store them as individual words. This was investigated by lexical decision task, reading aloud of complex words and reading aloud of constituent morphemes in the present study. Results of t-tests showed that there was effect of boundedness on accuracy rate in reading aloud complex words and constituent morphemes, but not in lexical decision task. Implications of the findings on the development of word reading would be discussed. Mental representations of morpheme meanings became clearer in higher grades for both bound and free morphemes due to increased language exposure. |
| dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version |
| dc.description | "A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, June 30, 2010." |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (p. 30-31). |
| dc.description | Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2010. |
| dc.description.thesisdiscipline | Speech and Hearing Sciences |
| dc.description.thesislevel | Bachelor's |
| dc.description.thesisname | Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences |
| dc.identifier.hkul | b4813212 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/173726 |
| dc.language | eng |
| dc.publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License |
| dc.rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Chinese language -- Morphemics. |
| dc.subject.lcsh | School children -- Language. |
| dc.title | The effect of boundedness on reading Chinese words across primary grades |
| dc.type | UG_Thesis |