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McBride, Catherine Alexandra – Educational Psychology Review, 2016
Some aspects of Chinese literacy development do not conform to patterns of literacy development in alphabetic orthographies. Four are highlighted here. First, semantic radicals are one aspect of Chinese characters that have no analogy to alphabetic orthographies. Second, the unreliability of phonological cues in Chinese along with the fact that…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Acquisition, Alphabets, Orthographic Symbols