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This study explores two issues related to scripts and reading. First, any language has two kinds of words, content words and grammatical morphemes, and readers develop the strategy of processing the former more carefully than the latter. Second, this strategy is easier to develop in Korean and Japanese texts where content words are written in logographic, and visually complex, Chinese characters, while grammatical morphemes are written in visually simple phonetic scripts.
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Taylor, I., Park, K. (1995). Differential Processing of Content Words and Function Words: Chinese Characters vs. Phonetic Scripts. In: Taylor, I., Olson, D.R. (eds) Scripts and Literacy. Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1162-1_12
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