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Tong, Xiuhong; Tong, Xiuli; McBride, Catherine – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
This study investigated Chinese children's development of sensitivity to positional (orthographic), phonological, and semantic cues of radicals in encoding novel Chinese characters. A newly designed picture-novel character mapping task, along with nonverbal reasoning ability, vocabulary, and Chinese character recognition were administered to 198…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Kindergarten, Grade 2
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Williams, Clay; Bever, Thomas – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2010
The effects of semantic and phonetic radicals on Chinese character decoding were examined. Our results suggest that semantic and phonetic radicals are each available for access when a corresponding task emphasizes one or the other kind of radical. But in a more neutral lexical recognition task, the semantic radical is more informative. Semantic…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Phonetics, Semantics, Character Recognition
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Liao, Chen-Huei; Georgiou, George K.; Parrila, Rauno – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2008
We examined the relationship between rapid naming speed (RAN) and Chinese character recognition accuracy and fluency. Sixty-three grade 2 and 54 grade 4 Taiwanese children were administered four RAN tasks (colors, digits, Zhu-Yin-Fu-Hao, characters), and two character recognition tasks. RAN tasks accounted for more reading variance in grade 4 than…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Character Recognition, Grade 4, Grade 2