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Valency, Secondary Frequency, and Lexical Access: A Japanese Study.

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Yamada, Jun; Kayamoto, Yuriko – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998

A study examined the effects of valency (associative value representing the number of two-kanji words containing the first-positional kanji of the word) on recognition of two-kanji words in Japanese. Frequency and valency of the first constituent kanji were significant factors for word recognition, and frequency of the first constituent kanji was…

Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Japanese, Language Processing, Language Research

English Word Recognition and Word Integration Skills of Native Arabic- and Japanese-Speaking Learners of English as a Second Language.

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Fender, Michael – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2003

Investigated the effects of first language word-level reading skills on the development of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) word-level reading skills. Crosslinguistic analysis indicates that native Arabic and Japanese speakers are likely to encounter different types of ESL word-level reading difficulties. (VWL)

Descriptors: Arabic, English (Second Language), Japanese, Native Speakers