The Influence of the Pinyin and Zhuyin Writing Systems on the Acquisition of Mandarin Word Forms by Native English Speakers.

Front Psychol · 2016 · PMC4891949 · PMID 27375506

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only marginally significantp = 0.061so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

In this experiment, participants in the Pinyin group (mean = 2.53; SD = 0.834) required on average more cycles than did participants in the Zhuyin group (mean = 2.00; SD = 0.655); however, this difference was only marginally significant [ F (1, 28) = 3.797, p = 0.061, partial η 2 = 0.119].

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