Tentative Analysis of Japanese Writing Errors Observed

Joyce Terry

As a source of insights into the organization of orthographic representations within the Japanese mental lexicon, this paper presents a tentative analysis of Japanese writing errors observed within responses collected for a word association survey conducted as part of the ongoing construction of the large-scale Japanese Word Association Database (JWAD) (Joyce, 2005, 2006, 2007a; Joyce & Miyake, 2008). In contrast to the 'informal' or 'spontaneous' writing situations from which previous studies have collected writing errors (e.g., Hatta, Kawakami, & Hatasa, 1997; Hatta, Kawakami, & Tamaoka, 1998), the writing error data collected in this study would seem to be more instructive about the types of information utilized when an individual tries to retrieve and write a kanji that they are less than confident about. In total, 1,078 writing errors (924 kanji orthography writing errors and 154 kana orthography writing errors) are classified according to a newly extended classification scheme. The classification results for kanji orthography writing errors are consistent with the notion that the activation of phonological information is an important factor in the production of kanji writing errors. However, the present results also indicate that even when native Japanese writers are not confident about the correct strokes for a particular kanji character, they often have a partial visual image for the target kanji's components or have a vague visual outline for its overall form, suggesting that the activation of orthographical information is also an important factor in the production of kanji writing errors.

Tentative Analysis of Japanese Writing Errors Observed

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Tentative Analysis of Japanese Writing Errors Observed

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収録刊行物

キーワード

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書き出し

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