The Japanese mental lexicon : psycholinguistics studies of kana and kanji processing / Joseph F. Kess, Tadao Miyamoto.

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THE JAPANESE MENTAL LEXICON; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION; INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS; THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF JAPANESE PSYCHOLOGY; THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF JAPANESE PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; THE SCOPE OF THIS BOOK; Chapter 2. A HISTORY OF THE JAPANESE ORTHOGRAPHY; INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS; KANJI SCRIPT; Kanji History; Kanji Policies; Kanji Frequencies; Diachronic Factors in Kanji Frequencies; Kanji in the Computer Age; KANA SCRIPTS; Chapter 3. KANJI PROCESSING; INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS; THE STRUCTURE OF KANJI WORDS; Kanji Architecture

EXPERIMENTAL METHODS IN EYE-MOVEMENT STUDIESBasic Eye Movements; Experimental Methods; EYE-MOVEMENT STUDIES IN JAPANESE; Regular Kanji-based Texts; Kanji-based Texts vs. Kana-only Texts; Vertical Texts vs. Horizontal Texts; Scrolling Speed and Window Size; CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 9. LATERALITY; INTRODUCTION; DICHOTOMOUS VIEWS OF LATERALITY IN KANA/KANJI PROCESSING; The Origin of the Dichotomous View; Kana Processing; Kanji Processing; FUNCTIONAL FACTORS IN LATERALITY PREFERENCES; Experimental Variables; Examination of Tasks Involved; Summary Conclusions; CLINICAL STUDIES; Universality

This book surveys the psycholinguistic dimensions of lexical access to the mental lexicon in Japanese, and attempts to synthesize the diversity of Japanese psycholinguistic research into the nature of written word processing in Japanese. Ten chapters focus on the nature of such psycholinguistic inquiry and its history, the structural origins of the Japanese script types and their relative frequencies, lexical access studies in kanji, the hiragana and katakana syllabaries, romaji, and mixed text processing, laterality preferences in kana/kanji processing and their implications for scientific di.

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