In this text, we first describe the frequency measures that are available for Chinese. By far the most important word feature is word frequency. Research on the Chinese language requires reliable information about word characteristics, so that the stimulus materials can be manipulated and controlled properly. Finally, a Chinese character represents a syllable, which most of the time is a morpheme (i.e., the smallest meaningful element), and many Chinese words in fact are disyllabic compound words.
This is likely to have consequences for eye movement control in reading. Another characteristic of the Chinese writing system is that there are no spaces between the words. For example, the logographic writing system makes it impossible to compute the word's phonology on the basis of non-lexical letter to sound conversions. Not only is Chinese one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, it also differs in interesting ways from the alphabetic writing systems used in the Western world.
Research on the Chinese language is becoming an important theme in psycholinguistics.
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