Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ579307
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1998
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The Effects of Morphological Semantics on the Processing of Japanese Two-Kanji Compound Words.
Tamaoka, Katsuo; Hatsuzuka, Makiko
Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, v10 n3-5 p293-322 Oct 1998
Finds that, because kanji morphemes of opposite and similar concepts are semantically activated both as morpheme units and compound-word units, semantic representations of the two morphemes and the compound word which they create compete with each other at the concept level, which slows down lexical decision and naming of the compound word. (SR)
Descriptors: Japanese, Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Models, Morphology (Languages), Semantics
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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