本研究通过遮蔽启动实验探讨了中国学习者对英语规则和不规则动词的加工。结果表明，被试对高频动词的判断准确率高于低频动词，判断速度快于低频动词；规则假词不具有音系相似性效应，而不规则假词具有；低频规则动词和规则假词分解加工，不规则词和高频规则动词的加工不存在分解；规则度没有显著影响被试对英语规则和不规则动词的加工。被试利用记忆系统加工不规则词和高频规则动词，利用计算系统加工低频规则词和规则假词，符合双机制理论。

This study investigated the processing of English regular and irregular verbs by Chinese EFL learners with a masked priming task. The results showed that their response accuracy of high-frequency verbs was higher than that of low-frequency verbs, and their response time of high-frequency verbs was shorter than that of low-frequency verbs. Regular nonce verbs did not show phonological similarity effects, but irregular ones did. Decomposition was evidenced for the low-frequency regular verbs and regular nonce verbs, but not for the irregular verbs and the high-frequency regular verbs. In addition, regularity did not seem to play a role in their processing of English regular and irregular verbs. The results indicate that the Chinese EFL learners in the present study processed irregular verbs and high-frequency regular verbs with memory, but low-frequency regular verbs and regular nonce verbs with computation, which supports the dual-mechanism theories.