What and where is the word?

Catherine McBride-Chang; Hsuan-Chih Chen; Benjawan Kasisopa; Denis Burnham; Ronan Reilly; Paavo Leppänen

doi:10.1017/S0140525X1200009X

What and where is the word?

Catherine McBride-Chang, Hsuan-Chih Chen, Benjawan Kasisopa, Denis Burnham, Ronan Reilly, Paavo Leppänen

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	295-296
Number of pages	2
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	35
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X1200009X
Publication status	Published - 2012

Keywords

reading
word recognition

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