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The multiple pronunciations of Japanese kanji: A masked priming investigation.

English words with an inconsistent grapheme-to-phoneme conversion or with more than one pronunciation (“homographic heterophones”; e.g., “lead”–/lεd/, /lid/) are read aloud more slowly than matched controls, presumably due to competition processes. In Japanese kanji, the majority of the characters h...

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Published in:Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 66; no. 10; pp. 2023 - 2039
Main Authors: Verdonschot, Rinus Gerardus, La Heij, Wido, Tamaoka, Katsuo, Kiyama, Sachiko, You, Wen-Ping, Schiller, Niels Olaf
Format: Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Oct2013
Subjects:
Masked priming
Kanji
Graphemics
Phoneme (Linguistics)
Pronunciation
Phonology
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