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- Title
What and where is the word?
- Authors
McBride-Chang, Catherine; Chen, Hsuan-Chih; Kasisopa, Benjawan; Bumham, Denis; Reilly, Ronan; Leppänen, Paavo
- Abstract
Examples from Chinese, Thai, and Finnish illustrate why researchers cannot always be confident about the precise nature of the word unit. Understanding ambiguities regarding where a word begins and ends, and how to model word recognition when many derivations of a word are possible, is essential for universal theories of reading applied to both developing and expert readers
- Subjects
VOCABULARY; READING; WORD recognition; LINGUISTIC universals; READERS; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 5, p295
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X1200009X