Developmental models of learning to read Chinese words

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1662-1676

  Tong, Xiuli ^a   McBride Chang, Catherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Morphological awareness; Orthographic processing; Phonological awareness; Radicals; Subcharacter processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; AWARENESS; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HEARING; HONG KONG; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; WRITING;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; WRITING;

EID: 78649242692     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020611     Document Type: Article

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