The Contributions of Segmental and Suprasegmental Information in Reading Chinese Characters Aloud.

The Chinese writing system provides an excellent case for testing the contribution of segmental and suprasegmental information in reading words aloud within the same language. In logographic Chinese characters, neither segmental nor tonal information is explicitly represented, whereas in Pinyin, an...

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Main Authors: Min Wang, Chuchu Li, Candise Y Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4638349?pdf=render