Mora or syllable? Which unit do Japanese use in naming visually presented stimuli?

Applied Psycholinguistics Volume 25 Issue 1 Page 1-27 published_at 2004
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Mora or syllable? Which unit do Japanese use in naming visually presented stimuli?
Creator
Tamaoka Katsuo
Terao Yasushi
Source Title
Applied Psycholinguistics
Volume 25
Issue 1
Start Page 1
End Page 27
Abstract
Because the Japanese phonetic script (i.e., kana) represents moraic units, it is often claimed that Japanese people assemble phonology at the moraic unit. Two experiments were conducted to investigate the unit for naming visually presented stimuli, focusing on the special nasals /N/, geminates /Q/, long vowels /R/, and dual vowels /J/. The special sounds create two morae when there is only one syllable. Experiments 1 and 2 compared the production of three-mora, three-syllable and three-mora, two-syllable real, and nonsense words. The findings indicated that native Japanese speakers named the three-mora words containing the special sounds more quickly. Accordingly, it is posited that special sounds are named as syllable units rather than moraic units.
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Japanese [ 810 ]
Language
eng
Resource Type journal article
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Date of Issued 2004
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Copyright (c) 2004 Cambridge University Press
Publish Type Version of Record
Access Rights open access
Source Identifier
[ISSN] 0142-7164
[DOI] http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716404001018 isVersionOf