caa a22 4500 467938466 CHVBK 20180406153004.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10936-006-9022-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10936-006-9022-y Analysis of a Chinese Phonetic Compound Database: Implications for Orthographic Processing [Elektronische Daten] [Janet Hsiao, Richard Shillcock] The complexity of Chinese orthography has hindered the progress of research in Chinese to the same level of sophistication of that in alphabetic languages such as English. Also, there has been no publicly available resource concerning the decomposition of Chinese characters, which is essential in any attempt to model the cognitive processes of Chinese character recognition. Here we report our construction and analysis of a Chinese lexical database containing the most frequent phonetic compounds decomposed into semantic and phonetic radicals according to Chinese etymology. Each radical was further decomposed into basic stroke patterns according to a Chinese transcription system, Cangjie (Chu, 1979 Laboratory of chu Bong-Foo Retrieved August 25, 2004, from http://www.cbflabs.com/). Other information such as pronunciation and character frequency were also incorporated. We examine the distribution of different types of character, the information skew in phonetic compounds, the relations between subcharacter orthographic units and the pronunciation of the entire character, and the processing implications of these phenomena in terms of universal psycholinguistic principles. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Chinese characters nationallicence Orthography nationallicence Mental lexicon nationallicence Chinese database nationallicence Visual word recognition nationallicence Hsiao Janet Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, USA aut Shillcock Richard School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK aut Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 35/5(2006-09-01), 405-426 0090-6905 35:5<405 2006 35 10936 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-006-9022-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-006-9022-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hsiao Janet Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shillcock Richard School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 35/5(2006-09-01), 405-426 0090-6905 35:5<405 2006 35 10936 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer