Article Title：Lexical access to Japanese kanji by native speakers of Chinese: Evidence from lexical decision and naming tasks
Abstract：
The present study investigated the mental processing of Japanese kanji (Chinese-origin characters in the Japanese language) by native speakers of Chinese who had studied Japanese. A lexical decision task (Experiment 1) and a naming task (Experiment 2) were used to investigate the effects of the form, pronunciation, and meaning of kanji on visual word recognition. The stimuli were 8 groups of Japanese kanji, half of which were the same as characters in the Chinese language, and half of which were different in terms of form, pronunciation, and/or meaning. It was concluded that in the mental lexicon of the Chinese speakers who had studied Japanese, Japanese and Chinese words with the same form, similar pronunciation, or similar meaning were closely linked. Moreover, meaning was activated in both the lexical decision task and the name task. Information about the pronunciation of the characters was important in the naming task, which required overt phonological responses. However, such was not the case for the lexical decision task, in which overt phonological output was not required.
Keywords: mental lexicon; Japanese kanji; lexical decision; naming; native speakers of Chinese
DOI: 10.5926/jjep1953.50.4_436
Source：JAPANESE JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
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