Age of acquisition effects in reading Chinese: Evidence in favour of the arbitrary mapping hypothesis

British Journal of Psychology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 499-516

  Chen, Bao Guo ^a   Zhou, Hui Xia ^a   Dunlap, Susan ^b   Perfetti, Charles A ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; STUDENTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34548590540     PISSN: 20448295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000712606X165484     Document Type: Article

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