TY - JOUR
T1 - Semantic effects in word naming
T2 - Evidence from English and Japanese Kanji
AU - Shibahara, Naoki
AU - Zorzi, Marco
AU - Hill, Martin P.
AU - Wydell, Taeko
AU - Butterworth, Brian
PY - 2003/2
Y1 - 2003/2
N2 - Three experiments investigated whether reading aloud is affected by a semantic variable, imageability. The first two experiments used English, and the third experiment used Japanese Kanji as a way of testing the generality of the findings across orthographies. The results replicated the earlier findings that readers were slower and more error prone in reading low-frequency exception words when they were low in imageability than when they were high in imageability (Strain, Patterson, & Seidenberg, 1995). This result held for both English and Kanji even when age of acquisition was taken into account as a possible confounding variable, and the imageability effect was stronger in Kanji compared to English.
AB - Three experiments investigated whether reading aloud is affected by a semantic variable, imageability. The first two experiments used English, and the third experiment used Japanese Kanji as a way of testing the generality of the findings across orthographies. The results replicated the earlier findings that readers were slower and more error prone in reading low-frequency exception words when they were low in imageability than when they were high in imageability (Strain, Patterson, & Seidenberg, 1995). This result held for both English and Kanji even when age of acquisition was taken into account as a possible confounding variable, and the imageability effect was stronger in Kanji compared to English.
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U2 - 10.1080/02724980244000369
DO - 10.1080/02724980244000369
M3 - Article
C2 - 12613564
AN - SCOPUS:0037313719
VL - 56 A
SP - 263
EP - 286
JO - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology
JF - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology
SN - 0272-4987
IS - 2
ER -