Two types of radical frequency effects on Japanese kanji character recognition

Psychologia

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 222-242

  Masuda, Hisashi ^a   Saito, Hirofumi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kanji character word; Radical companion; Token frequency; Type frequency; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033259933     PISSN: 00332852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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