Abstract
Compared with alphabetic languages, Chinese has many unique characteristics so that the processing of Chinese may also exhibit some larger differences. This paper examined the uniqueness of word superiority effect during Chinese reading. Using a force choice paradigm, we found a word superiority effect in Chinese. However, unlike English, when compared with the non-word condition, word superiority effect was found in the word condition but only when the character frequency was low and when compared with the character condition the word superiority effect was found only at the left character location of a two-character word. These differences reflect the difference in processing of Chinese words and English words.
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