Advances in Cognitive Mechanisms of Word Segmentation During Chinese Reading
中文阅读中词切分的认知机理述评

A number of cognitive studies have indicated that words play a critical role in reading.Hence,word segmentation is an important procedure in reading.Unlike alphabetic writing systems such as English,there are no spaces between words.Without spaces,how do Chinese readers segment words? In this article,recent progresses in the following topics on Chinese word segmentation are reviewed:1) Evidences that Chinese characters belonging to a word are processed as a unit;2) Some recent psychological studies on Chine...