Expertise in Chinese character recognition is marked by analytic/reduced holistic processing (Hsiao & Cottrell, 2009), which depends mainly on readers’ writing rather than reading experience (Tso, Au, & Hsiao, 2011). Here we examined whether simplified and traditional Chinese readers process characters differently in terms of holistic processing. When processing characters that are distinctive ...

the technique of applying mask is one of the most important techniques in arabic contemporary poetry in which the ancient characters would be recalled by mentioned technique in order to express the desired concepts. this literary technique plays an important role in egyptian modernism contemporary poetry. thus the present research intends to survey the lexical and expressional meaning of mask a...

Research in relational learning suggests that simple training instances may lead to better generalization than complex training instances. We examined whether this “simple advantage” extends to category learning in adults with simplified and traditional (more complex) Chinese writing scripts. In Experiment 1, participants learned Chinese characters and their English translations, performed a me...

This study analyzes how 12 recent (2000-2011) Newbery Medal-winning books represent gender. The study counts how many of the books’ characters represent progressive or traditional gender roles, how many male and female characters represent each character category (protagonist, antagonist, major, and minor), how many strong female characters are accepted or rejected by their peers, how many char...

mamdūh adwān (1941-2004) is a contemporary syrian poet who has vastly used traditions in his poems and has tried to express his ideas and stances toward arab world's current problems in a symbolic way and through traditional characters. mamdūh adwān is known as a poet committed to his country and people, and so, he considers expression of problems and provision of solutions as the highest ...

No one can deny the vital role that fairy tales played in forming personalities of successive generations across various regions worldwide. All adults should have pleasant memories with these books during their early childhood. These make enjoyable for children and adults, as all consider reading a part nostalgia past peaceful cheerful days. On other hand, many studies proved passive hazardous ...

In this paper we tackle the problem of character conversion from simplified Chinese to traditional Chinese. Of those simplified characters that need conversion, about 9.5% of them have more than 2 counterparts in the traditional scripts. We improve upon the previous log-linear approach first used in (Chen et al 2011) by utilizing more data sets and better translation models. We also show that a...