The effects of stroke order and radicals on the knowledge of Japanese Kanji orthography, phonology and semantics

Psychologia

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 199-210

  Tamaoka, Katsuo ^a   Yamada, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Kanji lexical knowledge; Kanji stroke order; Path model; Radicals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034367864     PISSN: 00332852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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