학술논문

What and where is the word?
Document Type
Article
Source
Behavioral & Brain Sciences. Oct2012, Vol. 35 Issue 5, p295-296. 2p.
Subject
*VOCABULARY
*READING
*WORD recognition
*LINGUISTIC universals
*LANGUAGE & languages
READERS
Language
ISSN
0140-525X
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 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]