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Hsiao, Janet Hui-wen – Brain and Language, 2011
In Chinese orthography, a dominant character structure exists in which a semantic radical appears on the left and a phonetic radical on the right (SP characters); a minority opposite arrangement also exists (PS characters). As the number of phonetic radical types is much greater than semantic radical types, in SP characters the information is…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Semantics, Personality, Word Recognition
Williams, Clay H. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines the effects of semantic and phonetic radicals on Chinese character decoding by high-intermediate level Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) learners. The results of the main study (discussed in Chapter #5) suggest that the CFL learners tested have a well-developed semantic pathway to recognition; however, their…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Phonetics, Semantics, Personality