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Consistency, frequency, and lexicality effects in naming Japanese Kanji.
Authors:
Fushimi, T., Ijuin, M., PATTERSON, K. & Tatsumi, I.
Reference:
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 382-407
Year of publication:
1999
CBU number:
3682
Abstract:
Japanese Kanji characters have various degrees of consistency of character-sound correspondences in multi-character words. A word was classified as consistent, inconsistent-typical, or inconsistent-atypical with reference to the most typical pronunciations for constituent characters among words sharing the same characters. A nonword was classified as consistent, inconsistent-biased, or inconsistent-ambiguous according to the degree of pronunciation typicality of its constituent characters in real words. A word naming experiment yielded a significant frequency-by-consistency interaction and a nonword naming experiment yielded significant consistency effects. In addition, both word frequency and lexicality exert strong effects on efficiency of naming Kanji character strings. These results demonstrate the influence of Kanji print-sound correspondences both at subword and whole-word levels.
