Usage of statistical cues for word boundary in reading Chinese sentences

Reading and Writing

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1007-1029

  Yen, Miao Hsuan ^a,b   Radach, Ralph ^c   Tzeng, Ovid J L ^a,d   Tsai, Jie Li ^b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese reading; Eye movements; Word processing; Word segmentation cues

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860379560     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-011-9321-z     Document Type: Article

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