Reading Chinese characters for meaning: The role of phonological information

Cognition

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2000, Pages

  Spinks, John A ^a   Liu, Ying ^b   Perfetti, Charles A ^b   Tan, Li Hai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Phonological activation; Reading Chinese; The Stroop effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CHINESE; COLOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; WRITING;

EID: 0034648086     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(00)00072-X     Document Type: Article

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