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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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