What matters in kanji word naming: Consistency, regularity, or On/Kun-reading difference?

Reading and Writing

Volumn 10, Issue 3-5, 1998, Pages 359-373

  Wydell, Taeko Nakayama ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computation of phonology; Consistency effect; Kun reading kanji; On reading kanji; Regularity effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037524189     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008083513500     Document Type: Article

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