Threshold-style processing of Chinese characters for adult second-language learners

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 471-480

  Liu, Ying ^a,b   Wang, Min ^c   Perfetti, Charles A ^b  

^a LIAONING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; READING; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; SKILL; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITING;

EID: 34447306919     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193287     Document Type: Article

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