What Are the Functional Orthographic Units in Chinese Word Recognition: The Stroke or the Stroke Pattern?

We present evidence that the visual analysis of Chinese characters by skilled readers is based upon well-defined orthographic constituents. These functional units are the recurrent, integral stroke-patterns, not the individual strokes as previously thought. The speed of simultaneous "same-diffe...

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Main Authors: Chen, Y, Allport, D, Marshall, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 1996