Evidence for cross-script abstract identities in learners of Japanese kana.
The presence of abstract letter identity representations in the Roman alphabet has been well documented. These representations are invariant to letter case (upper vs. lower) and visual appearance. For example, “a” and “A” are represented by the same abstract identity. Recent research has begun to co...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 46; no. 6; pp. 1010 - 1022 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=131034438&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 131034438 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2018 vid: 46 iid: 6 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 131034438 10.3758/s13421-018-0818-4 ppf: 1010 ppct: 12 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 564KB tig: atl: Evidence for cross-script abstract identities in learners of Japanese kana. aug: au: Schubert, Teresa Gawthrop, Roderick Kinoshita, Sachiko affil: Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA su: Intellect Linguistics Multilingualism Japanese people Visual perception sug: subj: Intellect Linguistics Multilingualism Japanese people Visual perception keyword: Abstract letter identities Japanese kana Letter naming; L2 reading acquisition Masked-priming same-different match task Abstract letter identities Japanese kana Letter naming; L2 reading acquisition Masked-priming same-different match task ab: The presence of abstract letter identity representations in the Roman alphabet has been well documented. These representations are invariant to letter case (upper vs. lower) and visual appearance. For example, “a” and “A” are represented by the same abstract identity. Recent research has begun to consider whether the processing of non-Roman orthographies also involves abstract orthographic representations. In the present study, we sought evidence for abstract identities in Japanese kana, which consist of two scripts, hiragana and katakana. Abstract identities would be invariant to the script used as well as to the degree of visual similarity. We adapted the cross-case masked-priming letter match task used in previous research on Roman letters, by presenting cross-script kana pairs and testing adult beginning -to- intermediate Japanese second-language (L2) learners (first-language English readers). We found robust cross-script priming effects, which were equal in magnitude for visually similar (e.g., り/リ) and dissimilar (e.g., あ/ア) kana pairs. This pattern was found despite participants’ imperfect explicit knowledge of the kana names, particularly for katakana. We also replicated prior findings from Roman abstract letter identities in the same participants. Ours is the first study reporting abstract kana identity priming (in adult L2 learners). Furthermore, these representations were acquired relatively early in our adult L2 learners. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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