Morphological awareness uniquely predicts young children's Chinese character recognition.

• Catherine McBride-Chang ^[1] ; Hua Shu ^[2] ; Aibao Zhou ^[3] ; Chun Pong Wat ; Richard K. Wagner ^[4]
  1. [1] Chinese University of Hong Kong

     Chinese University of Hong Kong

     RAE de Hong Kong (China)

     
  2. [2] Beijing Normal University

     Beijing Normal University

     China

     
  3. [3] Northwest Normal University

     Northwest Normal University

     China

     
  4. [4] Florida State University

     Florida State University

     Estados Unidos

     

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• Localización: Journal of educational psychology, ISSN-e 1939-2176, ISSN 0022-0663, Vol. 95, Nº. 4, 2003, págs. 743-751
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.95.4.743
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  • Two unique measures of morphological awareness, along with other reading-related tasks, were orally administered to 100 kindergarten and 100 2nd-grade Hong Kong Chinese children. These morphological awareness tasks were developed on the basis of 2 special properties of Chinese: (a) the relatively large number of homophones requires speakers to distinguish unique meanings in syllables with identical sounds, and (b) complex vocabulary words are often built from 2 or more previously learned morphemes. Both tasks of morphological awareness predicted unique variance in Chinese character recognition in these children, after controlling for age, phonological awareness, speeded naming, speed of processing, and vocabulary. Developmentally, both tasks of morphological awareness improved with age. Results demonstrate that morphological awareness is uniquely important for early Chinese character recognition. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)