Is the smallest unit in phonological processing equivalent to the smallest unit in orthographic processing? Lexical judgements of Katakana nonwords.
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- Tamaoka Katsuo
- Department of Business Adminlstration, Matsuyama University
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- Taft Marcus
- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales
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- Other Title
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- 拍は音韻処理の最小単位となりうるか 擬似外来語の語い正誤判断からの考察
- ハク ワ オンイン ショリ ノ サイショウ タンイ ト ナリ ウル カ ギジ
- Lexical judgements of Katakana nonwords
- 擬似外来語の語彙正誤判断からの考察
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Abstract
Katakana words (e.g., _??__??__??_=ka me ra) were modified in three different ways to create pseudowords that were presented to 36 Japanese readers in a lexical decision task. In Conditions 1 and 2, the first Kana symbol was changed, but in the former, the pronunciation of the initial consonant was kept intact (e.g., _??__??__??_+ko me ra), while in the latter the whole mora was changed (e.g., _??__??__??_=so me ra). In Condition 3, two morae were changed (e.g., _??__??__??_=so ki ra), creating a pseudo-word which was two Kana symbols different from any real word. If the pseudo-word gains access to lexical information, it will interfere with the pseudo-word classification response. Such a result was observed for Condition 1 (the mean RT=770ms) which significantly differed from both Condition 2 (735ms) and Condition 3 (720ms). Therefore, the interference effect was a phonological one, which indicates that Japanese readers must be sensitive to phonemic units when processing Kana. Thus, the smallest unit of phonological processing in Japanese is not necessarily the mora. The results are explained within the framework of interactive-activation model whereby phoneme and mora units are both activated when processing Katakana pseudo-words.
Journal
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- The Japanese journal of psychology
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The Japanese journal of psychology 65 (5), 377-382, 1994
The Japanese Psychological Association
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- CRID
- 1390282680051487104
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- NII Article ID
- 130002028487
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- NII Book ID
- AN00123620
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- ISSN
- 18841082
- 00215236
- http://id.crossref.org/issn/00215236
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- NDL BIB ID
- 3273427
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
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