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2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

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

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 21730599
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Experimental psychology
Research InstitutionTokai 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

    (2 results)

All 2011 2010

All Presentation (2 results)

  • [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

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