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Article: Chinese children’s statistical learning of orthographic regularities: Positional constraints and character structure
Title | Chinese children’s statistical learning of orthographic regularities: Positional constraints and character structure |
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Issue Date | 2014 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/titlecontent=t775653700 |
Citation | Scientific Studies of Reading, 2014, v. 18 n. 4, p. 291-308 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This study examined how Chinese children acquire the untaught positional constraints of stroke patterns that are embedded in left–right structured and top–bottom structured characters. Using an orthographic regularity pattern elicitation paradigm, 536 Hong Kong Chinese children at different levels of reading (kindergarten, 2nd, and 5th grades) were asked to produce invented characters with left–right and top–bottom stroke pattern pairs. Even kindergartners were aware of the positional constraints of stroke patterns and were able to produce orthographically legal pseudocharacters with different stroke pattern pairs. This ability improved across grade level. Moreover, there was a production asymmetry in which children produced more top–bottom structured pseudocharacters than left–right structured pseudocharacters. The error pattern analysis further revealed that more positional errors were observed in producing left–right structured noncharacters than in the top–bottom structured noncharacters. This production asymmetry seemed to reflect children’s experience with a distribution asymmetry observed between left–right (59.19%) and top–bottom structured characters (23.46%) in a corpus of school Chinese. These results are discussed within the framework of statistical learning of orthographic regularity in Chinese. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/200897 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.744 |
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dc.contributor.author | Tong, X | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | McBride, C | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-08-21T07:06:42Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-08-21T07:06:42Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Scientific Studies of Reading, 2014, v. 18 n. 4, p. 291-308 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1088-8438 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/200897 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This study examined how Chinese children acquire the untaught positional constraints of stroke patterns that are embedded in left–right structured and top–bottom structured characters. Using an orthographic regularity pattern elicitation paradigm, 536 Hong Kong Chinese children at different levels of reading (kindergarten, 2nd, and 5th grades) were asked to produce invented characters with left–right and top–bottom stroke pattern pairs. Even kindergartners were aware of the positional constraints of stroke patterns and were able to produce orthographically legal pseudocharacters with different stroke pattern pairs. This ability improved across grade level. Moreover, there was a production asymmetry in which children produced more top–bottom structured pseudocharacters than left–right structured pseudocharacters. The error pattern analysis further revealed that more positional errors were observed in producing left–right structured noncharacters than in the top–bottom structured noncharacters. This production asymmetry seemed to reflect children’s experience with a distribution asymmetry observed between left–right (59.19%) and top–bottom structured characters (23.46%) in a corpus of school Chinese. These results are discussed within the framework of statistical learning of orthographic regularity in Chinese. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/titlecontent=t775653700 | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Scientific Studies of Reading | en_US |
dc.rights | PREPRINT This is a preprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in the [JOURNAL TITLE] [year of publication] [copyright Taylor & Francis]; [JOURNAL TITLE] is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ with the open URL of your article POSTPRINT ‘This is an electronic version of an article published in [include the complete citation information for the final version of the article as published in the print edition of the journal]. [JOURNAL TITLE] is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ with the open URL of your article. | en_US |
dc.title | Chinese children’s statistical learning of orthographic regularities: Positional constraints and character structure | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Tong, X: xltong@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Tong, X=rp01546 | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/10888438.2014.884098 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84901483395 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 233153 | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 18 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 291 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 308 | en_US |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1532-799X | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000337242800004 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1088-8438 | - |