The effect of morphemic homophony on the processing of Japanese two-kanji compound words

Reading and Writing

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 281-302

  Tamaoka, Katsuo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kanji reading; Lexical decision; Morphemic homophones

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144437753     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-005-3354-0     Document Type: Review

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