Abstract
The production of Chinese characters was investigated in a dictation task. Children from the sixth grade were asked to write down Chinese characters embedded in compound words presented to them through tape. It was found that the accuracy of children’s character production was influenced by target character’s frequency, with higher frequency characters having higher accuracy. The composition of phonetic and semantic radicals had no direct influence on character production. In the analyses of incorrect (but real) characters produced by children, it was found that the most common errors were those replacing targets with orthographically different homophonic characters or with characters sharing phonetic radicals with target characters. The data were discussed in relation to theories of language production and lexical representation.
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