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Non-semantic reading in Kanji and English: Universal and language specific features
Authors:
Sasanuma, S. & Patterson, K.
Reference:
In B. de Gelder & J. Morais (Eds), Speech and Reading, Hove: Erlbaum (UK) Francis & Taylor, pp.207-225
Year of publication:
1995
CBU number:
2602
Abstract:
What happens to reading processes, in particular the ability to assign correct pronunciations to written words of various types, when semantic memory deteriorates? We address this question via data from patients with Alzheimer's disease and also other, more focal, dementing illnesses. Similarities and discrepancies between the patterns observed in Japanese (especially the Japanese morphographic writing system, kanji) and in English are of particular interest because the nature of the relationship between orthography and phonology is so different in these writing systems.
