Interesting Post on Reading Chinese from Language Log

lunetta
May 25, 2008, 07:56 PM posted in General Discussion

I just saw this over on Language Log and thought others might be interested as well.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=189
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tvan
May 25, 2008, 11:55 PM

Interesting. I wasn't quite clear on the distinction between the Guoyu Ribao mentioned in the article and most Chinese lessons (beginning through intermediate). It seems like they all include pinyin. Or did he mean characters with the phonetic notations typed directly under/besides the character?