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Properties of school Chinese: implications for learning to read.
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The properties of the 2,570 Chinese characters explicitly taught in Chinese elementary schools were systematically investigated, including types of characters, visual complexity, spatial structure, phonetic regularity and consistency, semantic ... (Full abstract text below) Published 2003 Jan-Feb
in Journal: Child Dev
(Language : eng)
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1. Child Dev.
2003 Jan-Feb;74(1):27-47
Properties of school Chinese: implications for learning to read.
Shu H, Chen X, Anderson RC, Wu N, Xuan Y
Department of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, China.
The properties of the 2,570 Chinese characters explicitly taught in Chinese elementary schools were systematically investigated, including types of characters, visual complexity, spatial structure, phonetic regularity and consistency, semantic transparency, independent and bound components, and phonetic and semantic families. Among the findings are that the visual complexity, phonetic regularity, and semantic transparency of the Chinese characters taught in elementary school increase from the early grades to the later grades: Characters introduced in the 1st or 2nd grade typically contain fewer strokes, but are less likely to be regular or transparent, than characters introduced in the 5th or 6th grade. The inverse relation holds when characters are stratified by frequency. Low-frequency characters tend to be visually complex, phonetically regular, and semantically transparent whereas high-frequency characters tend to be the opposite. Combined with other findings, the analysis suggests that written Chinese has a logic that children can understand and use.
PMID : 12625434 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]
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| First Name | LastName | Initials |
| Hua | Shu | H |
| Xi | Chen | X |
| Richard C | Anderson | RC |
| Ningning | Wu | N |
| Yue | Xuan | Y |
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, China.
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