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    The effects of graphic similarity on Japanese recognition of simplified Chinese characters

    The pedagogical and theoretical questions addressed in this study relate to the extent to which native Japanese readers with little or no knowledge of Chinese characters recognize Chinese characters that are v...

    **aochun Teng, Jun Yamada in Reading and Writing (2017)

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    Number Frequency in L1 Differentially Affects Immediate Serial Recall of Numbers in L2 Between Beginning and Intermediate Learners

    A list number recall test in English (L2) was administered to both Japanese (L1) students with beginning-level English proficiency who attended evening high school and Japanese college students with intermedia...

    Norihiko Sumioka, Atsuko Williams, Jun Yamada in Journal of Psycholinguistic Research (2016)

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    English Vowel Spaces Produced by Japanese Speakers: The Smaller Point Vowels’ and the Greater Schwas’

    This study investigated how Japanese-speaking learners of English pronounce the three point vowels /i/, /u/, and /a/ appearing in the first and second monosyllabic words of English noun phrases, and the schwa ...

    Kaoru Tomita, Jun Yamada, Shigenobu Takatsuka in Journal of Psycholinguistic Research (2010)

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    Differential Reading, Naming, and Transcribing Speeds of Japanese Romaji and Hiragana

    The morpho-syllabic Japanese writing system consists of the phonetic scripts of hiragana and katakana, the logographic kanji derived from Chinese characters and the less well researched romaji based on the Rom...

    Jun Yamada, Che Kan Leong in Reading and Writing (2005)

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    The semantic effect on retrieval of radicals in logographic characters

    This study examined the semantic effect on retrieval of radicals ofJapanese kanji. In the retrieval task, a stimulus word written inhiragana (Japanese syllabary) was presented one by one on a display, andparti...

    Jun Yamada, Hiroomi Takashima in Reading and Writing (2001)

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    The Consistency of Multiple-Pronunciation Effects in Reading: The Case of Japanese Logographs

    Naming latencies were measured for single- and multiple-reading (pronunciation) kanji words with two frequency levels in Experiment 1. Results showed that multiple-reading kanji are named much sl...

    Yuriko Kayamoto, Jun Yamada, Hiro-omi Takashima in Journal of Psycholinguistic Research (1998)

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    The time course of semantic and phonological access in naming kanji and kana words

    Two experiments were conducted to investigate the time course of semantic and phonological access in naming kanji and kana words. Japanese adults quickly named single words written in kanji and the same words ...

    Jun Yamada in Reading and Writing (1998)

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    Asymmetries Between Reading and Writing for Japanese Children

    Recent research suggests that learning to read and spell in English is more or less asymmetrical, i.e., can be unrelated to one another. Spelling disability exists along with apparently normal reading ability ...

    Jun Yamada in Scripts and Literacy (1995)

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    Evidence for and characteristics of Dyslexia among Japanese children

    In an attempt to determine the extent of developmental dyslexia in Japan, an oral reading test and a modified Bangor Dyslexia Test were administered to 125 fourth graders (69 boys and 56 girls). In this sample...

    Jun Yamada, Adam Banks in Annals of Dyslexia (1994)

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    Asymmetries of reading and writing kanji by Japanese children

    The present study aims at investigating the nature of kanji learning by focusing on various types of relationships between reading (naming) and writing of isolated kanji. Prominent asymmetries were found in no...

    Jun Yamada in Journal of Psycholinguistic Research (1992)

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    The discrimination learning of the liquids /r/ and /l/ by Japanese speakers

    The discrimination learning of the /r/ and /l/ sounds in a single 1-h session by Japanese college students who had received little or no English conversation training was examined. About half of the subjects e...

    Jun Yamada in Journal of Psycholinguistic Research (1991)