MODALITY DEPENDENCY OF FAMILIARITY RATINGS OF JAPANESE WORDS

被引：15

作者：

AMANO, S ^{[1
]}

KONDO, T ^{[1
]}

KAKEHI, K ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] NAGOYA UNIV, CHIKUSA KU, NAGOYA, AICHI 464, JAPAN

来源：

PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS | 1995年 / 57卷 / 05期

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D O I：

10.3758/BF03213265

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

Familiarity ratings for a large number of aurally and visually presented Japanese words were measured for 11 subjects, in order to investigate the modality dependency of familiarity. The correlation coefficient between auditory and visual ratings was .808, which is lower than that observed for English words, suggesting that a substantial portion of the mental lexicon is modality dependent. It was shown that the modality dependency is greater for low-familiarity words than it is for medium- or high-familiarity words. This difference between the low- and the medium- or high-familiarity words has a relationship to orthography. That is, the dependency is larger in words consisting only of kanji, which may have multiple pronunciations and usually represent meaning, than it is in words consisting only of hiragana or katakana, which have a single pronunication and usually do not represent meaning. These results indicate that the idiosyncratic characteristics of Japanese orthography contribute to the modality dependency.

引用

页码：598 / 603

页数：6

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