... hints to link the meanings and writings of Chinese characters. For instance, “河”(he2, river) [Note: Chinese char-acters will be followed by their pronunciations, denoted in Hanyu pinyin, and, ... ‡↑↕Academia Sinica, Taiwan †chaolin@nccu.edu.tw, ‡chiaying@gate.sinica.edu.tw Abstract We demonstrate applications of psycholin-guistic and sublexical information for learn-ing Chinese characters. ... predicting students’ read-ing ability, e.g., (Siok and Fletcher, 2001). Moreo-ver, the ability to detect and apply phonological consistency in GPCs, including the roles of PCs in PSCs in Chinese,...