The effects of word frequency and orthographic complexity on the writing process of Japanese two-morpheme compound words

Japanese Journal of Psychology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-50

  Tamaoka, Katsuo ^a   Takahashi, Noboru ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA KYOIKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kanji orthographic complexity; Kanji writing; Multiple level interactive activation model; Orthographic representations; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039391755     PISSN: 00215236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4992/jjpsy.70.45     Document Type: Article

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