AUDITORY RECOGNITION OF CHINESE-JAPANESE COGNATES AND HOMOGRAPHS BY CHINESE JFL LEARNERS

Spatial and symbolic recognition of Chinese mosques

The history of Islam in China began when the first ambassador of Islamic caliphate in 654 AD, gained the court of the Chinese emperor. After that Islam has been spread throughout there during a century. In this study, authors try to study about how architectural elements and spatial forms are effected from Islam or Buddhist-Chinese tradition. Then, at the first it must be clear that which symbo...

Recognition of Cognates and Interlingual Homographs: The Neglected Role of Phonology

In two experiments Dutch–English bilinguals were tested with English words varying in their degree of orthographic, phonological, and semantic overlap with Dutch words. Thus, an English word target could be spelled the same as a Dutch word and/or could be a near-homophone of a Dutch word. Whether such form similarity was accompanied with semantic identity (translation equivalence) was also vari...

Online Handwritten Chinese/Japanese Character Recognition

Handwritten character pattern recognition methods are generally divided into two types: online recognition and offline recognition [1]. Online recognition recognizes character patterns captured from a pen-based or touch-based input device where trajectories of pentip or finger-tip movements are recorded, while offline recognition recognizes character patterns captured from a scanner or a camera...

NEPHROPATHY CAUSED BY CHINESE HERBS IN IRAN

Semantic radical knowledge and word recognition in Chinese for Chinese as a Foreign Language learners

In the present study, we examined the relation of knowledge of semantic radicals to students’ language proficiency and word reading for adult Chinese-as-a-foreign language students. Ninety-seven college students rated their proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing in Chinese, and were administered measures of receptive and productive knowledge of semantic radical position and fu...