The effects of morphological semantics on the processing of Japanese two-kanji compound words

Reading and Writing

Volumn 10, Issue 3-5, 1998, Pages 293-322

  Tamaoka, Katsuo ^a   Hatsuzuka, Makiko ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nagoya Ryujo College Library   (Japan)

Author keywords

Morphological semantics; Multiple level interactive activation; Processing of japanese two kanji compound words; Semantic representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005637654     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008012220770     Document Type: Article

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