How Long to Read The Grammar of Chinese Characters

How Long Does it Take to Read The Grammar of Chinese Characters?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 14 minutes to read The Grammar of Chinese Characters by James Myers

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Anybody who reads or writes Chinese characters knows that they obey a grammar of sorts: though numerous, they are built out of a much smaller set of constituents, often interpretable in meaning or pronunciation, that are themselves built out of an even smaller set of strokes. This book goes far beyond these basic facts to show that Chinese characters truly have a productive and psychologically real lexical grammar of the same sort seen in spoken and signed languages, with non-trivial analogs of morphology (the combination of potentially interpretable constituents), phonology (formal regularities without implications for interpretation), and phonetics (articulatory and perceptual constraints). Evidence comes from a wide variety of sources, from quantitative corpus analyses to experiments on character reading, writing, and learning. The grammatical approach helps capture how character constituents combine as they do, how strokes systematically vary in different environments, how character form evolved from ancient times to the modern simplified system, and how readers and writers are able to process or learn even entirely novel characters. This book not only provides tools for exploring the full richness of Chinese orthography, but also offers new ways of thinking about the most fundamental question in linguistic theory: what is grammar?

How long is The Grammar of Chinese Characters?

The Grammar of Chinese Characters by James Myers is 252 pages long, and a total of 63,504 words.

This makes it 85% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Grammar of Chinese Characters Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 47 minutes to read The Grammar of Chinese Characters aloud.

What Reading Level is The Grammar of Chinese Characters?

The Grammar of Chinese Characters is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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