The cognitive processing of Japanese loanwords in katakana

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 69-79

  Tamaoka, Katsuo ^a   Miyaoka, Yayoi ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interlexical activation; Japanese loanwords; Katakana; Lexical mental boundary; Phonetic similarity and dissimilarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037269129     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5884.t01-1-00035     Document Type: Article

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