The multiple pronunciations of Japanese kanji: A masked priming investigation

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	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
刊名	QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
	2013
卷号	66 期号:10 页码:2023-2038
关键词	Reading aloud Masked priming Japanese kanji Pronunciation Phonology Homographic heterophony
ISSN号	1747-0218
通讯作者	Verdonschot, RG (reprint author), Nagoya Univ, Sch Languages & Cultures, Chikusa Ku, Furo Cho, Nagoya, Aichi 4648601, Japan.
产权排序	5
英文摘要	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.
学科主题	Cultural psychology
WOS标题词	Social Sciences ; Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
类目[WOS]	Psychology, Biological ; Physiology ; Psychology ; Psychology, Experimental
研究领域[WOS]	Psychology ; Physiology
关键词[WOS]	WEB-ACCESSIBLE DATABASE ; LEXICAL ACCESS ; WORD RECOGNITION ; FREQUENCY ; CONSISTENCY ; HOMOGRAPHS ; ACTIVATION ; CHINESE ; TIME
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.
原文出处	http://www.researchgate.net/publication/236062398_The_multiple_pronunciations_of_Japanese_kanji_A_masked_priming_investigation
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000327186700011
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/10797]
专题	心理研究所_中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
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,&Schiller, Niels Olaf.(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.