Analysis of a Chinese phonetic compound database: Implications for orthographic processing

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 405-426

  Hsiao, Janet Hui Wen ^a   Shillcock, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chinese characters; Chinese database; Mental lexicon; Orthography; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; READING; SEMANTICS; WRITING;

DATABASES; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS; WRITING;

EID: 33748879597     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-006-9022-y     Document Type: Article

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