Homophonic and semantic priming of Japanese kanji words: A time course study

Chen, Hsin-Chin; Yamauchi, Takashi; Tamaoka, Katsuo; Vaid, Jyotsna

doi:10.3758/bf03194029

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“…For writing systems like Chinese, lexical access is achieved by directly accessing the lexical entry from the graphic form. Because phonology is hard to assemble from sub-lexical phonology in such a system, it is typically retrieved from a stored representation in the mental lexicon (Chen et al 2007;Coltheart et al 2001). The finding of stronger activation in the left middle frontal gyrus in Chinese than English readers for homophone judgments confirms the role of this area in addressed phonological processing.…”

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“…We thus used a homophone judgment task for both Chinese and English readers, while acknowledging that this task may be somewhat more difficult than rhyme judgment for English readers. Our decision to use homophone judgment was based on it being a more natural task for Chinese readers since it calls on whole word phonology (Chen et al 2007). …”

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Optical imaging of phonological processing in two distinct orthographies

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Recent fMRI studies comparing the processing of alphabetic versus logographic scripts provide evidence for shared and orthography-specific regions of neural activity. The present study used nearinfrared spectroscopy to compare (within and across brain regions) the time course of neural activation for these two distinct orthographies. Native readers of English and of Chinese were tested on a homophone judgment task. Differences across groups were obtained in the time course of hemodynamic change for the left middle frontal, left superior temporal, and left supra-marginal gyri. Results thus support previous findings using fMRI and suggest that different neural mappings arise depending on whether an individual has learned to process written language using an alphabetic or logographic script.

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“…Unlike a previous study of cross-script priming that employed homophones (Chen et al, 2007), the primes in our Exp. 2 overlapped with targets only in the initial syllable.…”

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“…Several steps were taken to ensure that the observed priming would be primarily phonological in nature. First, visual form overlap between primes and targets was eliminated by using Hindi/Urdu words transcribed in Roman script as primes (following the cross-script manipulation used by Chen et al, 2007). For example, the transcription KHABAR was used for the prime /xabar/.…”

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“…These studies targeted readers of languages such as Japanese and Korean, which make use of different scripts within a single language. Testing phonological priming in Japanese readers, Chen, Yamauchi, Tamaoka, and Vaid (2007) found that recognition of words written using orthographically deep Kanji characters was not facilitated by the previous presentation of homophonic Kanji primes. However, orthographically shallow Hiragana primes effectively facilitated Kanji target recognition.…”

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Orthographic characteristics speed Hindi word naming but slow Urdu naming: evidence from Hindi/Urdu biliterates

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Two primed naming experiments tested the orthographic depth hypothesis in skilled biliterate readers of Hindi and Urdu. These languages are very similar on the spoken level but differ greatly in script; Hindi is a highly transparent script, whereas Urdu is more opaque. It was accordingly hypothesized that formbased priming would be greater for Hindi than Urdu, reflecting greater reliance on a phonological assembly route in the more transparent Hindi script. Proficient Hindi/ Urdu biliterate readers were presented with primes either in Hindi or Urdu script (Exp. 1), or in Roman transcription (Exp. 2), while targets were always in blocks of Hindi or Urdu. Across both experiments, form-based priming was observed only in Hindi. Additionally, target words were named significantly faster and better in Hindi than in Urdu. The results are taken as support for the hypothesis of differential reliance on phonological assembly as a function of script transparency. Further, the greater graphemic complexity of Urdu script relative to Hindi appears to have contributed to slower and less accurate overall single word reading for Urdu than Hindi, despite the fact that Urdu was the first learned script.

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Analysis of Letter Representation Using Latin and Arabic Scripts: A Masked Priming Study

Dirani

Dietrich

2018

J Psycholinguist Res

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Reading plays an essential role in our everyday lives. The aim of this study is to investigate how letters are represented in the brain using the unique characteristics of the Arabic language, which can be written with 2 different scripts. The hypothesis proposed is that the processing of script is sound based: Phonology is what determines letter identity. Using a forward-masked priming paradigm, we showed that Latin-script primes facilitated the recognition of subsequent Arabic-script targets which differed in orthography but shared phonology, thus suggesting a common level of phonological processing. In addition, semantic priming effects were controlled for. The findings thus confirmed our hypothesis and showed that letters that represent the same sound are processed similarly.

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Homophonic and semantic priming of Japanese kanji words: A time course study

Cited by 31 publications

References 21 publications

Optical imaging of phonological processing in two distinct orthographies

Optical imaging of phonological processing in two distinct orthographies

Orthographic characteristics speed Hindi word naming but slow Urdu naming: evidence from Hindi/Urdu biliterates

Analysis of Letter Representation Using Latin and Arabic Scripts: A Masked Priming Study

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