On the segmentation of Chinese words during reading

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 525-552

  Li, Xingshan ^a   Rayner, Keith ^b   Cave, Kyle R ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; Reading; Word recognition; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 64449086944     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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