Comparing the Functional Orthography Unit Between Chinese and Alphabets

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10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_84How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Chinese; Functional Orthography Unit; Abstract Letter Identity; Alphabet

Abstract

Functional Orthography Unit (FOU) is the letter in the alphabet and is the radical in Chinese. The present study reviews how researchers come to the aforementioned conclusion utilizing same-different judgement against participants and MRI scans pointing to the posterior region of the brain as the location involved for processing FOU, and that FOUs promote reading and word recognition. The main arguments/findings of this paper are: 1) the Functional Orthography Unit in the two sets of languages perform the identical duties; 2) they differ in how semantics, spatial organization, and the number of units in each letter or word are represented. The paper may inspire future researchers to examine FOU from other types of languages and draw a more universally applicable set of characteristics for the unit.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Haolin Lu
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/02/13
TI  - Comparing the Functional Orthography Unit Between Chinese and Alphabets
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 661
EP  - 667
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_84
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_84
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