title: Interactive processing of phonological information in reading Japanese Kanji character words and their phonemic radicals.
abstract: Kanji are categorized into four types based on the combinations 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 as all of its neighbor characters). The study demonstrated that both subword validity and radical-neighbor consistency affect naming latencies and error rates regardless of character frequency. The study also demonstrated that the subword validity affects ease of extraction of a subword's phonology. These results suggest that the phonology of the whole Kanji competes with the subword's phonology. Moreover, the competition is stronger when the radical-neighbors aid in extracting the phonology of the whole Kanji.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological Sciences, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. masuda@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Hisashi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Masuda
authors.forename: Hirofumi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Saito
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D010700:Phonetics; D011932:Reading; D012660:Semantics