Visual Chinese character recognition: Does phonological information mediate access to meaning?

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-57

  Tan, Li Hai ^a   Perfetti, Charles A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0031185107     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1997.2508     Document Type: Article

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