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Rao, Chaitra; Mathur, Avantika; Singh, Nandini C. – Brain and Language, 2013
Romanized transliteration is widely used in internet communication and global commerce, yet we know little about its behavioural and neural processing. Here, we show that Romanized text imposes a significant neurocognitive load. Readers faced greater difficulty in identifying concrete words written in Romanized transliteration (Romanagari)…
Descriptors: Romanization, Native Language, Cognitive Processes, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Lv, Caixia; Wang, Quanhong – Brain and Cognition, 2012
Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded during a Chinese character decision task to examine whether N400 amplitude is modulated by stimulus font. Results revealed large negative-going ERPs in an N400 time window of 300-500 ms to stimuli presented in degraded Xing Kai Ti (XKT) font compared with more intact Song Ti (ST) font regardless…
Descriptors: Evidence, Cues, Romanization, Chinese
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Hsiao, Janet Hui-wen; Shillcock, Richard – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2006
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 has been no publicly available resource concerning the decomposition of Chinese characters, which is essential in any attempt to model the cognitive processes of…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Etymology, Semantics, Romanization