What Are the Functional Orthographic Units in Chinese Word Recognition: The Stroke or the Stroke Pattern?

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1024-1043

  Chen, Y P ^a,b   Allport, D A ^a   Marshall, J C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0030328011     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713755668     Document Type: Article

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