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What and where is the word?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2012

Catherine McBride-Chang ,
Hsuan-Chih Chen ,
Benjawan Kasisopa ,
Denis Burnham ,
Ronan Reilly  and
Paavo Leppänen
Catherine McBride-Chang
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong. cmcbride@psy.cuhk.edu.hk http://www.psy.cuhk.edu.hk/en/people/cmcbride/cmcbride.php hcchen@psy.cuhk.edu.hk http://www.psy.cuhk.edu.hk/en/people/hcchen/hcchen.php
Hsuan-Chih Chen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong. cmcbride@psy.cuhk.edu.hk http://www.psy.cuhk.edu.hk/en/people/cmcbride/cmcbride.php hcchen@psy.cuhk.edu.hk http://www.psy.cuhk.edu.hk/en/people/hcchen/hcchen.php
Benjawan Kasisopa
Affiliation:
MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney–Bankstown, Milperra, NSW 2144, Australia. b.kasisopa@uws.edu.au http://marcs.uws.edu.au/?q=people/benjawan-kasisopa%C2%A0 d.burnham@uws.edu.au http://marcs.uws.edu.au/?q=people/professor-denis-burnham ronan.reilly@nuim.ie http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~ronan/
Denis Burnham
Affiliation:
MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney–Bankstown, Milperra, NSW 2144, Australia. b.kasisopa@uws.edu.au http://marcs.uws.edu.au/?q=people/benjawan-kasisopa%C2%A0 d.burnham@uws.edu.au http://marcs.uws.edu.au/?q=people/professor-denis-burnham ronan.reilly@nuim.ie http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~ronan/
Ronan Reilly
Affiliation:
MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney–Bankstown, Milperra, NSW 2144, Australia. b.kasisopa@uws.edu.au http://marcs.uws.edu.au/?q=people/benjawan-kasisopa%C2%A0 d.burnham@uws.edu.au http://marcs.uws.edu.au/?q=people/professor-denis-burnham ronan.reilly@nuim.ie http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~ronan/ Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. ronan.reilly@nuim.ie http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~ronan/
Paavo Leppänen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, FIN-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland. paavo.ht.leppanen@jyu.fi https://www.jyu.fi/ytk/laitokset/psykologia/henkilokunta/leppanen_p
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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.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , October 2012 , pp. 295 - 296
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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