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| Research article summary (published 30 Mar 2002): |
Interactive processing of phonological information in reading Japanese Kanji character words and their phonemic radicals.
Full Abstract
Kanji are categorized into four types based on the combinations of "subword validity" (when the right phonemic radical represents the same On-reading as the whole Kanji character) and "radical-neighbor consistency" (when the whole Kanji character represents the same On-reading as all of its neighbor characters). The study demonstrated that both subword validity and radical-neighbor consistency affect naming latencies and error rates regardless of character frequency. The study also demonstrated that the subword validity affects ease of extraction of a subword's phonology. These results suggest that the phonology of the whole Kanji competes with the subword's phonology. Moreover, the competition is stronger when the radical-neighbors aid in extracting the phonology of the whole Kanji.Copyright 2002 Elsevier Science (USA).
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Author/s: Masuda, Hisashi (H); Saito, Hirofumi (H);
Affiliation: Department of Psychological Sciences, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. masuda@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Brain and language (Brain Lang), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: -2002 Apr-Jun; vol 81 (issue 1-3) : pp 445-53
Dates: Created 2002/06/25; Completed 2002/07/25; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 12081412, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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