Are
Japanese Kanji Processed Like Pictures?
M. Flaherty |
Does
logographic script occupy an intermediate position between pictures
and alphabetically written words? When confronted with a word, will
readers of English and Japanese scripts employ different strategies
in reading it? The present experiment tested the hypothesis that
in reading, kana and English words have faster access to verbal codes
than semantic, and that kanji, like pictures, have faster access
to meaning than pronunciation. It was found that words, no matter
whether they were written in English, kana or kanji were found to
access the phonetic code prior to the semantic in reading.
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