Form and sound similarity effects in kanji recognition

Reading and Writing

Volumn 10, Issue 3-5, 1998, Pages 323-357

  Saito, H ^a   Masuda, H ^a   Kawakami, M ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activation of whole character and radicals; Figurative and phonological similarity; Homophony effect; Kanji recognition and matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009783886     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008093507932     Document Type: Article

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