Research Article

Neural Substrates of the Morphological Structure of Chinese Words

Table 1

Characteristics of stimulus in each experimental condition with mean values.

ConditionWord frequencyStrokeFirst character frequencySecond character frequency

PB9.6418.45126.72111.77
BB9.6416.29502.23314.88
MM9.6420.954.3420.95
Non-words017.92231.79144.82

Key: PB = parallel bimorphemic words, BB = biased bimorphemic words, MM = monomorphemic words.