The Japanese Mental Lexicon: Psycholinguistics Studies of Kana and Kanji ProcessingThis book surveys the psycholinguistic dimensions of lexical access to the mental lexicon in Japanese, and attempts to synthesize the diversity of Japanese psycholinguistic research into the nature of written word processing in Japanese. Ten chapters focus on the nature of such psycholinguistic inquiry and its history, the structural origins of the Japanese script types and their relative frequencies, lexical access studies in kanji, the hiragana and katakana syllabaries, romaji, and mixed text processing, laterality preferences in kana/kanji processing and their implications for scientific discussions of language and cognition, evidence from eye-movement studies, the acquisition of orthographic skills by Japanese children, and a review of the implications and conclusions that arise from the contributions of such research. The text is directed at filling the need for an overview of this research because of its importance to theoretical modelling in linguistics and psychology, as well as aphasiology, mathematical and statistical linguistics, educational practices and governmental intervention in respect to language policies, and studies of linguistic and cultural history. |
Contents
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF JAPANESE PSYCHOLINGUISTICS | 5 |
THE SCOPE OF THIS BOOK | 8 |
Chapter 2 A HISTORY OF THE JAPANESE ORTHOGRAPHY | 13 |
KANJI SCRIPT | 14 |
KANA SCRIPTS | 30 |
Chapter 3 KANJI PROCESSING | 33 |
THE STRUCTURE OF KANJI WORDS | 35 |
CONCLUSIONS | 128 |
Chapter 7 ACQUISITION OF ORTHOGRAPHY SKILLS | 129 |
ΚΑΝΑ ACQUISITION | 131 |
KANJI ACQUISITION | 138 |
CROSSCULTURAL COMPARISONS OF READING SKILLS AND READING DISABILITIES | 146 |
CONCLUSIONS | 152 |
Chapter 8 EYEMOVEMENT STUDIES | 153 |
EXPERIMENTAL METHODS IN EYEMOVEMENT STUDIES | 154 |
PHONOLOGICAL INFORMATION IN KANJI WORDS | 45 |
SEMANTIC INFORMATION IN KANJI WORDS | 57 |
COMPOUND KANJI | 68 |
KINETIC INFORMATION IN KANJI WORDS | 78 |
FONTTYPE INFORMATION IN PROCESSING KANJI WORDS | 80 |
Chapter 4 ΚΑΝΑ PROCESSING | 83 |
SYLLABARY INVENTORIES | 84 |
PROCESSING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN KANA TYPES? | 87 |
DIRECT ACCESS FOR ΚΑΝΑ | 93 |
THE ISSUE OF SCRIPT FAMILIARITY FOR ΚΑΝΑ | 99 |
CONCLUSIONS | 110 |
Chapter 5 ROMAJI PROCESSING | 111 |
Chapter 6 KANJIKÀNA MIXED TEXTS | 117 |
NONLINGUISTIC SYMBOLS | 121 |
STROOPTEST RESULTS | 124 |
EYEMOVEMENT STUDIES IN JAPANESE | 158 |
CONCLUSIONS | 166 |
Chapter 9 LATERALITY | 167 |
DICHOTOMOUS VIEWS OF LATERALITY IN KANAKANJI PROCESSING | 169 |
FUNCTIONAL FACTORS IN LATERALITY PREFERENCES | 177 |
CLINICAL STUDIES | 186 |
CONCLUSIONS | 191 |
Chapter 10 CONCLUSIONS | 193 |
LANGUAGE SPECIFICITY | 198 |
CONCLUSION | 208 |
APPENDIX | 209 |
REFERENCES | 213 |
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The Japanese Mental Lexicon: Psycholinguistics Studies of Kana and Kanji ... Joseph F. Kess,Tadao Miyamoto No preview available - 1999 |
The Japanese Mental Lexicon: Psycholinguistics Studies of Kana and Kanji ... Joseph F. Kess,Tadao Miyamoto No preview available - 1999 |
Common terms and phrases
alphabetic cognitive complex kanji components compound kanji compound words English example experimental eye movements fixation Gengo grade graphemic hangul hanzi Hatta hiragana homophonic individual kanji interference Japan Japanese kanji Japanese Language Japanese subjects Japanese words Japanese Writing System kana and kanji kana words kanji and kana kanji characters kanji compounds kanji processing kanji stimuli kanji words Kashu katakana words Kawakami Kokugogaku kun-readings Kyoiku learning left hemisphere left visual field lexical access lexical decision lexical decision task linguistic loan words logographic memory mental lexicon msec Nozaki okeru on-readings orthographic Osaka phonetic phonological presented pronunciation psycholinguistics Psychology radicals readers representations right hemisphere right visual field romaji saccadic Saito Sasanuma script familiarity script type semantic Shinrigaku Kenkyu Shori single kanji skills strategies Stroop studies syllabary symbols tachistoscopic Tamaoka task tategaki texts Tokyo visual field visual field advantage word recognition words written writing system written in kanji yokogaki Yokoyama