Alternating-Script Priming in Japanese: Are Katakana and Hiragana Characters Interchangeable?

Autor/inn/en	Perea, Manuel; Nakayama, Mariko; Lupker, Stephen J.
Titel	Alternating-Script Priming in Japanese: Are Katakana and Hiragana Characters Interchangeable?
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43 (2017) 7, S.1140-1146 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0000365
Schlagwörter	Japanese; Priming; Word Recognition; Syllables; Written Language; Language Processing; Repetition; College Students; Foreign Countries; Reaction Time; Japan (Tokyo) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Japaner; Japanisch; Worterkennung; Silbe; Geschriebene Sprache; Sprachverarbeitung; Wiederholung; Collegestudent; Ausland; Reaktionsvermögen
Abstract	Models of written word recognition in languages using the Roman alphabet assume that a word's visual form is quickly mapped onto abstract units. This proposal is consistent with the finding that masked priming effects are of similar magnitude from lowercase, uppercase, and alternating-case primes (e.g., beard-BEARD, BEARD-BEARD, and BeArD-BEARD). We examined whether this claim can be readily generalized to the 2 syllabaries of Japanese Kana (Hiragana and Katakana). The specific rationale was that if the visual form of Kana words is lost early in the lexical access process, alternating-script repetition primes should be as effective as same-script repetition primes at activating a target word. Results showed that alternating-script repetition primes were less effective at activating lexical representations of Katakana words than same-script repetition primes--indeed, they were no more effective than partial primes that contained only the Katakana characters from the alternating-script primes. Thus, the idiosyncrasies of each writing system do appear to shape the pathways to lexical access. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01