Rapid naming speed and Chinese character recognition

Reading and Writing

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 231-253

  Liao, Chen Huei ^a   Georgiou, George K ^a   Parrila, Rauno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Chinese reading; Rapid naming

Indexed keywords

EID: 39749123773     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-007-9071-0     Document Type: Article

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