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Cognitive processing of the Chinese and the Japanese languages /

The area of cognitive processing of Chinese and Japanese is currently attracting a great deal of attention by leading cognitive psychologists. They aim to find out the similarities and differences in processing the morphosyllabic Chinese and Japanese syllabary as compared with alphabetic language sy...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Leong, Che Kan, Tamaoka, Katsuo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1998]
Series:Neuropsychology and cognition ; 14.
Subjects:
Psycholinguistics > Case studies.
Chinese language > Psychological aspects > Case studies.
Japanese language > Psychological aspects > Case studies.
Psycholinguistics.
Cognition.
Chinese language > Psychological aspects.
Japanese language > Psychological aspects.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:The area of cognitive processing of Chinese and Japanese is currently attracting a great deal of attention by leading cognitive psychologists. They aim to find out the similarities and differences in processing the morphosyllabic Chinese and Japanese syllabary as compared with alphabetic language systems. Topics under the processing of Chinese include: the use of phonological codes in visual identification of Chinese words, the constraint on such phonological activation, recognition of Chinese homophones, Chinese sentence comprehension and children's errors in writing Chinese characters. Topics under the processing of Japanese include: the automatic recognition of kanji within an interactive-activation framework, On-reading and Kun-reading of kanji characters, processing differences between hiragana and kanji, the effect of polysemy on katakana script, and the writing behavior of Japanese and non-Japanese speakers. The interactive-activation model provides the phonologic-orthographic links in processing both language systems. The present volume should add greatly to our understanding of this topic. Many of the contributors are internationally known for their experimental psychological work.
Item Description:"Reprinted from Reading and writing, an interdisciplinary journal, volume 10, Nos. 3-5, October 1998."
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 316 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789401591614 (electronic bk.)
940159161X (electronic bk.)
ISSN:0927-0116 ;