Orthography and phonology in reading Japanese kanji words: Evidence from the semantic decision task with homophones

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 75-87

  Sakuma, Naoko ^a   Sasanuma, Sumiko ^b   Tatsumi, Itaru F ^a   Masaki, Shinobu ^c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^c ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; READING; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031891576     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211371     Document Type: Article

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