The role of lexical knowledge of loan words in visual word recognition for native Japanese speakers

2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21730599
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Experimental psychology
• Research Institution: Tokai Women's University
• Principal Investigator: OGAWA Taeko 東海学院大学, 人間関係学部, 准教授 (30434517)
• Project Period (FY): 2009 – 2010
• Keywords: 単語認知 / 第二言語学習 / 心的辞書

Research Abstract

The present study investigated how lexical knowledge of loan words plays a role in English word recognition process for native Japanese speakers in order to understand the structure of Japanese mental lexicon. General university students participated in the lexical decision experiments and questionnaires for familiarity ratings of English words and Katakana words. The results indicate that the students with high proficiency in English more use lexical knowledge of Katakana words in English word recognition process compared to the students of low proficiency.

Research Products

• [Presentation] 日本人学生を対象とした英単語認知過程におけるカタカナ表記親密度の影響 (2011)
  • Author(s): 小河妙子
  • Organizer: 日本心理学会第75回大会発表論文集
  • Place of Presentation: (印刷中)
  • Year and Date: 20110900
• [Presentation] Visual word recognition in unbalanced bilinguals with L1 Japanese and L2 English : the role of lexical knowledge of oan words written by katakana script of Japanese to read English words. (2010)
  • Author(s): Ogawa, T.
  • Organizer: Presented at the 33th European Conference on Visual Perception, Rausanne, Switzerland.
  • Year and Date: 2010-08-25