The sensitivity of native Japanese speakers to On and Kun kanji readings

Reading and Writing

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 957-968

  Tamaoka, Katsuo ^a   Taft, Marcus ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Japanese lexicon; Kanji phonological lexicon; On and Kun reading; Phonological shift

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955656424     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-009-9184-8     Document Type: Article

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