Duo Liu|Catherine McBride?Chang|Terry Tin?Yau Wong|Hua Shu|Anson Wong
Morphological awareness in Chinese: Unique associations of homophone awareness and lexical compounding to word reading and vocabulary knowledge in Chinese children
Education University of Hong Kong|University of Hong Kong|Beijing Normal University|University of Hong Kong
abstract indepth exploration associations two aspects morphological awareness chinesehomophone awareness lexical compounding awarenessto chinese word reading vocabulary knowledge primary focus present study among 154 9yearold hong kong chinese children lexical compounding homophone awareness significantly associated word reading r 54 compounding r 38 homophones vocabulary knowledge r 41 compounding r 53 homophones however autoregressors additionally statistically controlled homophone awareness remained uniquely associated vocabulary word reading lexical compounding uniquely associated word reading vocabulary path analyses best illustrated pattern morphological awareness constructs likely bidirectionally associated word reading vocabulary knowledge however homophone awareness centrally associated vocabulary knowledge taps specific existing morpheme knowledge contrast lexical compounding requires structural understanding ones language seems helpful learning read vocabulary acquisition chinese