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Peer reviewedFeldman, Laurie B.; Turvey, M. T. – Language and Speech, 1980
When two Japanese adults named colors written in Kanji, a logographic orthography, and in Kana, a syllabary, the latency to vocalization was consistently less for Kana. This superiority of Kana is attributed to the closer relation of Kana to phonology and, therefore, to speech. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Graphemes, Ideography, Japanese
