title: Subword activation in reading Japanese single Kanji character words.
abstract: Kanji are categorized into four types based on the combination of "subword validity" (when the right phonemic radical represents the same On reading as the whole Kanji character) and "radical-neighbor consistency" (when the whole Kanji character represents the same On reading with all its neighbor characters). The study demonstrated that both subword validity and radical-neighbor consistency affect naming latencies and error rates for relatively high-frequency Kanji character words. Moreover, both analytic and holistic decoding processes, which correspond to subword and whole-character activation, are used in the naming of Japanese single Kanji character words. Accounts of the findings by dual-route and connectionist models are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Human Informatics, Nagoya University, Japan. saito@info.human.nagoya-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Masuda
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kawakami
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D010700:Phonetics; D011932:Reading; D014825:Vocabulary