Interference effects of radical markings and stroke order animations on Chinese character learning among L2 learners.

There is controversy around whether presenting sub-character units such as radicals and strokes are beneficial to L2 Chinese learning. The present study explored the effects of radical markings (i.e.

Syllables and phonemes as planning units in Mandarin Chinese spoken word production: Evidence from ERPs.

Speakers of different languages might rely on differential phonological units when planning spoken output. In the present experiment, we investigated the role of phonemes, as well as the relative time course of syllabic vs phonemic encoding, in Mandarin Chinese word production. A form preparation task was combined with encephalography (EEG).