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Phonological Processing Of Japanese Kanji Characters, Randy L. Evans
Phonological Processing Of Japanese Kanji Characters, Randy L. Evans
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the lexical access of Japanese kanji characters, particularly the access of on-readings and kun-readings, which are different pronunciations that kanji may realize in different contexts. A modified Stroop experiment was used, using drawings instead of colors, in which subjects were to call out what they saw in the drawings while ignoring written distractors. The following three conditions were used:
1. A Kunyomi condition, which offered a distractor that is graphically and phonologically identical to the character that represents the object in the drawing,
2. An Onyomi condition, which offered a distractor that …