The role of phonology in reading Japanese: Or why i don't hear myself when reading Japanese

Reading and Writing

Volumn 10, Issue 3-5, 1998, Pages 439-455

  Kinoshita, Sachiko ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Kana kanji mapping to phonology; Reduced phonology in parafoveal preview; Word order in sentence comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345850013     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008043814409     Document Type: Article

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