The multiple pronunciations of Japanese kanji: A masked priming investigation

	The multiple pronunciations of Japanese kanji: A masked priming investigation
	Verdonschot, Rinus Gerardus; La Heij, Wido; Tamaoka, Katsuo; Kiyama, Sachiko; You, Wen-Ping; Schiller, Niels Olaf; Verdonschot, RG (reprint author), Nagoya Univ, Sch Languages & Cultures, Chikusa Ku, Furo Cho, Nagoya, Aichi 4648601, Japan.
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摘要	English words with an inconsistent grapheme-to-phoneme conversion or with more than one pronunciation (homographic heterophones; e.g., lead-/l epsilon d/, /lid/) are read aloud more slowly than matched controls, presumably due to competition processes. In Japanese kanji, the majority of the characters have multiple readings for the same orthographic unit: the native Japanese reading (KUN) and the derived Chinese reading (ON). This leads to the question of whether reading these characters also shows processing costs. Studies examining this issue have provided mixed evidence. The current study addressed the question of whether processing of these kanji characters leads to the simultaneous activation of their KUN and ON reading, This was measured in a direct way in a masked priming paradigm. In addition, we assessed whether the relative frequencies of the KUN and ON pronunciations (dominance ratio, measured in compound words) affect the amount of priming. The results of two experiments showed that: (a) a single kanji, presented as a masked prime, facilitates the reading of the (katakana transcriptions of) their KUN and ON pronunciations; however, (b) this was most consistently found when the dominance ratio was around 50% (no strong dominance towards either pronunciation) and when the dominance was towards the ON reading (high-ON group). When the dominance was towards the KUN reading (high-KUN group), no significant priming for the ON reading was observed. Implications for models of kanji processing are discussed.
关键词	Reading aloud Masked priming Japanese kanji Pronunciation Phonology Homographic heterophony
学科领域	Cultural Psychology
	2013
语种	英语
发表期刊	QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
ISSN	1747-0218
卷号	66 期号:10 页码:2023-2038
期刊论文类型	期刊论文
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收录类别	SCI
项目简介	R.V.'s research is presently supported by a Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellowship for foreign researchers (P12315). The authors would like to thank Clemens Poppe for his support with the stimuli of Experiment 1 and John Phillips, Nanae Murata, Chikako Ara, Satoru Muraoka, Yayoi Miyaoka, and Ritsuko Kikusawa for their help in recruiting and testing participants in Japan. Also we would like to thank Jennifer Burt and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions on this manuscript.
WOS关键词	WEB-ACCESSIBLE DATABASE ; LEXICAL ACCESS ; WORD RECOGNITION ; FREQUENCY ; CONSISTENCY ; HOMOGRAPHS ; ACTIVATION ; CHINESE ; TIME
WOS标题词	Social Sciences ; Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
WOS研究方向	Psychology ; Physiology
WOS类目	Psychology, Biological ; Physiology ; Psychology ; Psychology, Experimental
WOS记录号	WOS:000327186700011
资助机构	Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [P12315]
引用统计	被引频次：12[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/10797
专题	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
通讯作者	Verdonschot, RG (reprint author), Nagoya Univ, Sch Languages & Cultures, Chikusa Ku, Furo Cho, Nagoya, Aichi 4648601, Japan.
作者单位	Verdonschot, RG (reprint author), Nagoya Univ, Sch Languages & Cultures, Chikusa Ku, Furo Cho, Nagoya, Aichi 4648601, Japan.
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Verdonschot, Rinus Gerardus,La Heij, Wido,Tamaoka, Katsuo,et al. The multiple pronunciations of Japanese kanji: A masked priming investigation[J]. QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY,2013,66(10):2023-2038.
APA	Verdonschot, Rinus Gerardus.,La Heij, Wido.,Tamaoka, Katsuo.,Kiyama, Sachiko.,You, Wen-Ping.,...&Verdonschot, RG .(2013).The multiple pronunciations of Japanese kanji: A masked priming investigation.QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY,66(10),2023-2038.
MLA	Verdonschot, Rinus Gerardus,et al."The multiple pronunciations of Japanese kanji: A masked priming investigation".QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 66.10(2013):2023-2038.

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