The KEY to the ROCK: Near-homophony in nonnative visual word recognition

Cognition

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 263-269

  Ota, Mitsuhiko ^a   Hartsuiker, Robert J ^b   Haywood, Sarah L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arabic; Bilingualism; Homophone; Japanese; Lexical representation; Nonnative language phonology; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ERROR; FEMALE; HOMOPHONY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARABS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63149160373     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.12.007     Document Type: Article

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