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Chinese: A window on analytic processing. Laurie Beth Feldman State University at Albany, SUNY Haskins Laboratories NIH HD 01994 Linguistic analysis in word recognition Chinese: A window on analytic processing. Character = syllable graphemic units smaller than the character (but not smaller than a syllable) exist even in logographic writing systems 80-95% characters are semantic-phonetic compounds phonetic semantic Mapping syllable -- character (homophones) Semantic components within Chinese characters Phonological influences on semantic components Homophony influences recognitio