9. Visual-Spatial Properties and Orthographic Processing of Chinese Characters

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. List of Contributors xi
5. 1. 'Cognitive Conjunction' Analysis of Processing Chinese 1
6. Part 1 Neurocognitive Architecture of Language
7. 2. How the Mind Can Meet the Brain in Reading: A Comparative Writing Systems Approach 35
8. 3. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Promising Tool for Defining the Organization of Chinese Language in the Brain 61
9. 4. Emergent Semantic Structure and Language Acquisition: 79 A Dynamic Perspective 79
10. Part 2 Interfacing Orthographic, Phonological and Semantic Processing
11. 5. Picture-Word Interference Effects on Naming in Chinese 101
12. 6. Speed of Getting at the Phonology and Meaning of Chinese Words 129
13. 7. Reading Efficiency and Reading Strategies 143
14. 8. Early Phonological Activation in Reading Kanji: An Eye-Tracking Study 157
15. Part 3 Structural Relationship of Components of Chinese Characters
16. 9. Visual-Spatial Properties and Orthographic Processing of Chinese Characters 175
17. 10. Psycho-Geometric Analysis of Commonly Used Chinese Characters 195
18. 11. Frequency and Position Effects of Component Combination in Chinese Character Recognition 207
19. Part 4 Learning Chinese Characters and Words
20. 12. Segmental Analysis and Reading in Chinese 227
21. 13. Biscriptal Reading in Chinese 247
22. 14. Differences in Chinese Character Identification Between Skilled and Less Skilled Young Readers 263
23. 15. The Developing Lexicon: The Case of Hong Kong Secondary Students 285
24. 16. Chinese Lexical Knowledge Development: Strategies for Decoding Unfamiliar Words 307
25. Index 327