The Effect of Morphemic Homophony on the Processing of Japanese Two-kanji Compound Words
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ID | 14163 |
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creator |
Tamaoka, Katsuo
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subject | Kanji reading
Lexical decision
Morphemic homophones
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NDC |
Japanese
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abstract | Two experiments investigated the effect of kanji morphemic homophony on lexical decision and naming. Effects were examined from both the left-hand and right-hand positions of Japanese two-kanji compound words. The number of homophones affected the processing of compound words in the same way for both tasks. For left-hand kanji, fewer morphemic homophones led to faster lexical decision and whole-word naming. For right-hand kanji, the number of morphemic homophones did not affect either lexical decision or naming. This effect of homophonic density suggested that, when a kanji-compound word is to be processed, phonological information of its kanji constituents is automatically activated and reverberates back to generate a series of orthographic representations of kanji morphemic homophones, but not in a completely parallel fashion.
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journal title |
Reading and Writing
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volume | Volume 18
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issue | Issue 4
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start page | 281
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end page | 302
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date of issued | 2005-06
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publisher | Springer
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issn | 0922-4777
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language |
eng
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nii type |
Journal Article
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HU type |
Journal Articles
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DCMI type | text
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format | application/pdf
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text version | author
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rights | Copyright (c) 2005 Springer "The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com"
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relation is version of URL | http://dx.doi.org10.1007/s11145-005-3354-0
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department |
International Student Center
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