Phonological codes as early sources of constraint in Chinese word identification: A review of current discoveries and theoretical accounts

LH Tan, CA Perfetti - Reading and Writing, 1998 - Springer
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 …

Cognitive profiling and preliminary subty** in Chinese developmental dyslexia

CSH Ho, DWO Chan, SH Lee, SM Tsang, VH Luan - Cognition, 2004 - Elsevier
The present study examined the cognitive profile and subtypes of developmental dyslexia in
a nonalphabetic script, Chinese. One hundred and forty-seven Chinese primary school …

Positional specificity of radicals in Chinese character recognition

M Taft, X Zhu, D Peng - Journal of memory and Language, 1999 - Elsevier
The first two experiments reported here took two-radical Chinese characters and transposed
their radicals to create another character. Character decision and naming responses to …

An investigation of Chinese-character learning strategies among non-native speakers of Chinese

HH Shen - System, 2005 - Elsevier
This study first identifies commonly used Chinese character learning strategies employed by
non-native (English-speaking) learners of Chinese and generalizes about the factors …

A “radical” approach to reading development in Chinese: The role of semantic radicals and phonetic radicals

CSH Ho, TT Ng, WK Ng - Journal of literacy research, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
Two studies investigating the significance of radical knowledge in Chinese reading
development are reported in this paper. Study 1 examined the semantic radical knowledge …

Radical awareness and word acquisition among nonnative learners of Chinese

HH Shen, C Ke - The Modern Language Journal, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates developmental trends in acquiring knowledge of radicals, radical
perception skills, and skills in applying knowledge of radicals among nonnative learners of …

Verbs and nouns are organized and accessed differently in the mental lexicon: evidence from Hebrew.

A Deutsch, R Frost, KI Forster - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 1998 - psycnet.apa.org
A masked priming paradigm was used to examine the role of the root and verbal-pattern
morphemes in lexical access within the verbal system of Hebrew. Previous research within …

Semantic radicals contribute to the visual identification of Chinese characters

LB Feldman, WWT Siok - Journal of memory and language, 1999 - Elsevier
In a character decision task, phonetic compound targets (composed of a semantic radical
and a phonetic component) followed primes that shared (a) the target's radical and were …

Chinese lexical database (cld) a large-scale lexical database for simplified mandarin chinese

CC Sun, P Hendrix, J Ma, RH Baayen - Behavior Research Methods, 2018 - Springer
Abstract We present the Chinese Lexical Database (CLD): a large-scale lexical database for
simplified Chinese. The CLD provides a wealth of lexical information for 3913 one-character …

The nature of the mental representation of radicals in Chinese: a priming study.

G Ding, D Peng, M Taft - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
Using a priming procedure, 4 experiments were carried out to investigate the effects of a
short preexposure of a prime that was a radical or contained radicals identical to the target …