Developmental changes in character-complexity and word-length effects when reading Chinese script

Reading and Writing

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1085-1108

  Su, Yi Fen ^a   Samuels, Jay ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Character complexity effect; Chinese script; Developmental changes; Word length effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956935921     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-009-9197-3     Document Type: Article

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