Learning of Chinese characters

[Ann Dowker]

There was a special issue of Reading and Writing (1998, Vol. 10,
No.3-5) devoted to "Cognitive processing of Chinese characters, words,
sentences and Japanese kanji and kana".

Your student may also be interested in the following book:

Abraham Inhoff, Hsuan-Chih Chen, and Chi-an Wang: Reading Chinese
Script: A Cognitive Analysis; Erlbaum, 1999

An article that might be of interest is:

Y.P. Chen, D.A. Allport and J.C. Marshall: What are the fundamental
orthographic units in Chinese word recognition: stroke or stroke
pattern? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Experimental
Psychology, 1996, 49, 1024-1043.

Ann

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 sdevitt at tcd.ie wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
> A doctoral student of mine is working on developing mnemonic techniques for
> the learning of Chinese characters. Does anyone have any references to work
> in this area, or in the area of the problematic of learning Chinese
> characters? (Other languages with similar characters are included in this
> appeal.)
> Many thanks in advance. I will post the results.
> Sean Devitt
> Dr. Sean Devitt
> Senior Lecturer in Education
> School of Education
> University of Dublin
> Trinity College
> Dublin 2
> Ireland
> Phone:  608 1293 (direct)
> Fax:    677 7238 (department office)
> email: sdevitt at tcd.ie
>
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