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Peer reviewedKinoshita, Sachiko – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1998
Suggests that the role of phonology may be more limited when reading text in Japanese relative to English, and that this difference is not due to variations in orthographic depth. Proposes key factors are the greater visual discriminability of kanji words under degraded conditions and the less important role of word order as a syntactic cue. (SR)
Descriptors: Japanese, Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
