A written Chinese character has a more direct connection with its meaning than a written
word in English does. Moreover, because there is no unit in the writing system that encodes …

This study aimed to explore how alphabetic readers learn to read Chinese. First-year
Chinese beginning learners who are skilled English readers were tested for their sensitivity …

Knowing how the brain processes Chinese characters of different frequencies of occurrence
may shed light on the extent to which orthographic variations of different languages can …

Two experiments examined whether the speed of activating different aspects of a word's
meaning influences the time course of accessing phonology and meaning. The authors …

Prior research has generally assumed either that phonological codes do not contribute to
Chinese character identification or that they do so only through a look-up process at the …

The complexity of Chinese orthography has hindered the progress of research in Chinese to
the same level of sophistication of that in alphabetic languages such as English. Also, there …

The present study examines the impact of neighborhood size (number of other two-character
words sharing the same character at the same position) on Chinese lexical processing …

Does phonology play a role in silent reading? This issue was addressed in Chinese.
Phonology effects are less expected in Chinese than in alphabetical languages like English …

This volume uses unique properties of Chinese script to focus on morphological analyses
during the character and word recognition process, though some of the reported work also …

In this study, we examined the effects of word and character frequency across three
commonly used word-identification tasks (lexical decision, naming, and sentence reading) …