Holistic versus analytic processing: Evidence for a different approach to processing of Chinese at the word and character levels in Chinese children

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 466-478

  Liu, Phil D ^a   Chung, Kevin K H ^b   McBride Chang, Catherine ^c   Tong, Xiuhong ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Compound character; Compound word; Lexical processing; Reaction time; Written Chinese

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; PHONETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHILD; CHINA; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955575218     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2010.06.006     Document Type: Article

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