The sensitivity of native Japanese speakers to On and Kun kanji readings |
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Authors: | Katsuo Tamaoka and Marcus Taft |
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Institution: | (1) Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan;(2) University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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Abstract: | Japanese kanji reading can be divided into two types: On-readings, derived from the original Chinese pronunciation and Kun-readings,
originating from the Japanese pronunciation. Kanji that are normally given an On-reading around 50% of the time were presented
in a context of other kanji that had either a highly dominant On-reading or a highly dominant Kun-reading. The reading that
was given in this experiment was very much biased toward the type of phonological environment in which it was embedded. So
native Japanese speakers easily shifted between On and Kun readings, depending on phonological context, suggesting that separate
On and Kun sub-lexica exist within the phonological lexicon. |
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