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Use of Partial Information in Learning to Read Chinese Characters

This study investigated whether children can use partial information to learn the pronunciations of Chinese characters. Participants were 49 2nd graders and 56 4th graders whose home language was Mandarin and 75 2nd graders and 93 4th graders whose home language was Cantonese. Children had 2 trials...

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Published in:	Journal of educational psychology 2003-03, Vol.95 (1), p.52-57
Main Authors:	Anderson, Richard C, Li, Wenling, Ku, Yu-Min, Shu, Hua, Wu, Ningning
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