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...
| Publicado en: | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 66; no. 10; pp. 2023 - 2039 |
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