Cognitive Processing of the Chinese and the Japanese Languages

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VI

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2. Cognitive Processing of Chinese characters, words, sentences and Japanese kanji and kana: An introduction

   1. Cognitive Processing of Chinese characters, words, sentences and Japanese kanji and kana: An introduction

      • Che Kan Leong, Katsuo Tamaoka

      Pages 1-10

3. Processing of the Chinese Language

   1. Phonological codes as early sources of constraint in Chinese word identification: A review of current discoveries and theoretical accounts

      • Li-Hai Tan, Charles A. Perfetti

      Pages 11-46

   2. Differential effects of phonological priming on Chinese character recognition

      • B. S. Weekes, M. J. Chen, Y-B. Lin

      Pages 47-68

   3. Context effects and the processing of spoken homophones

      • Ping Li, Michael C. Yip

      Pages 69-89

   4. The effective visual field in reading Chinese

      • Hsuan-Chih Chen, Chi-Kong Tang

      Pages 91-100

   5. A slot-filling model of sentence comprehension

      • In-Mao Liu

      Pages 101-112

   6. Children’s stroke sequence errors in writing Chinese characters

      • Nancy Law, W. W. Ki, A. L. S. Chung, P. Y. Ko, H. C. Lam

      Pages 113-138

4. Processing of the Japanese Language

   1. The effects of morphological semantics on the processing of Japanese two-kanji compound words

      • Katsuo Tamaoka, Makiko Hatsuzuka

      Pages 139-168

   2. Form and sound similarity effects in kanji recognition

      • Hirofumi Saito, H. Masuda, M. Kawakami

      Pages 169-203

   3. What matters in kanji word naming: Consistency, regularity, or On/Kun-reading difference?

      • Taeko Nakayama Wydell

      Pages 205-219

   4. Identifying the On- and Kun-readings of Chinese characters: Identification of On versus Kun as a strategy-based judgment

      • Hitoshi Hirose

      Pages 221-240

   5. The effects of polysemy for Japanese katakana words

      • Yasushi Hino, Stephen J. Lupker, Chris R. Sears, Taeko Ogawa

      Pages 241-270

   6. The time course of semantic and phonological access in naming kanji and kana words

      • Jun Yamada

      Pages 271-283

   7. The role of phonology in reading Japanese: Or why I don’t hear myself when reading Japanese

      • Sachiko Kinoshita

      Pages 285-301

   8. Writing errors in Japanese kanji: A study with Japanese students and foreign learners of Japanese

      • Takeshi Hatta, A. Kawakami, K. Tamaoka

      Pages 303-316

5. Back Matter

   Pages 317-318

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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.

• Alphabet
• Chinese
• Japanese
• Japanisch
• Kana
• Kanji
• Priming
• attention
• character
• language

• University of Saskatchewan, Canada

  Che Kan Leong, Katsuo Tamaoka

• Hiroshima University, Japan

  Che Kan Leong, Katsuo Tamaoka

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