Syllable, phoneme, and tone: Psycholinguistic units in early Chinese and english word recognition

Scientific Studies of Reading

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 171-194

  McBride Chang, Catherine ^a   Tong, Xiuli ^a   Shu, Hua ^b   Wong, Anita M Y ^c   Leung, Ka Wai ^a   Tardif, Twila ^d  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 45849099107     PISSN: 10888438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10888430801917290     Document Type: Article

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