A Japanese logographic character frequency list for cognitive science research

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 482-500

  Chikamatsu, Nobuko ^a   Yokoyama, Shoichi ^b   Nozaki, Hironari ^c   Long, Eric ^b   Fukuda, Sachio ^d  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Educational Policies National Institute for Educational Research of Japan (NIER)   (Japan)

^c AICHI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^d YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; READING;

COGNITIVE SCIENCE; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; READING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0034244149     PISSN: 07433808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/bf03200819     Document Type: Article

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