Hisashi Masuda

Hiroshima Shudo University · Faculty of Health Sciences

Kanji are categorized into four types based on the combinations of "subword validity" (when the right phonemic radical represents the same On-reading as the whole Kanji character) and "radical-neighbor consistency" (when the whole Kanji character represents the same On-reading as all of its neighbor characters). The study demonstrated that both sub...

This paper addresses two closely related topics for understanding the highly fungible nature of written Japanese. The first is to consider the relative merits of the notions of graphematic representation and orthography with respect to the Japanese writing system (JWS). The second issue is to advocate an inclusive notion of intentionality, which to...

This chapter reports on two experiments conducted to investigate the morphological activation of two-kanji compound words using the constituent-morpheme priming paradigm with a series of very-brief masked stimulus onset asynchronicity (SOA) conditions. In contrast to Experiment 1 where the word-formation principle (WFP) conditions all involved Sino...

The general consensus among writing-systems researchers is that the Japanese writing system (JWS) is remarkably complex (Joyce, 2002a, 2011). This introductory chapter consists of two main parts that, respectively, provide an overview of the multi-script JWS and a selective review of psycholinguistic research on Japanese visual word processing. Mor...

As a significant milestone within ongoing efforts to construct a comprehensive database in the form of a lexical resource (LR) of Japanese Lexical Properties (JLP-LR), this paper outlines the initial construction of an Ontology of Japanese Lexical Properties (JLP-O) (Joyce & Hodošček 2014), and, in particular, describes some of its key aspects spec...

In order to be able to conduct meaningful research into all aspects of language, it is essential for language science and cognitive science researchers to have practical access to an increasingly wider range of detailed and contemporary information about their target languages. Against that background, this paper presents a short overview summary o...

Temporary PDF file for semantic transparency ratings for 10,015 two-kanji compound words.

The architecture of writing systems metaphor has special relevance for understanding the structural nature of the Japanese writing system, and, more specifically, for appreciating how the 2,136 kanji of the /jō-yō-kan-ji-hyō/* ‘List of characters for general use’ function as the core building blocks in the orthographic representation of a considera...

One of the most fundamental issues for all models of the mental lexicon is how to represent essential information about the morphological structure of polymorphemic words. This paper describes the construction of a large-scale database of two-kanji compound words, which supplements a central component of data relating to 78,426 compound headwords f...

The majority of Japanese complex kanji consist of two subword units (radicals), and each radical is differentiated according to its combinability. Radical-type frequency is defined as the number of radical companions (NC) functioning as the number of characters containing that radical. The current study is intended to address the question of whethe...

Three experiments were conducted to investigate letter migration in Japanese Kana word recognition. The participants were presented two brief masked "source" words (e.g., [symbol: see text]) each made up of two components (letters), followed by a "probe" word (e.g., [symbol: see text]). The probe word in the critical trials was a blend of two lette...

Three experiments were conducted to investigate letter migration in Japanese Kana word recognition. The participants were presented two brief masked "source" words (e.g., Sic) each made up of two components (letters), followed by a "probe" word (e.g., Sic). The probe word in the critical trials was a blend of two letters, one each from the two sour...

Complex kanji characters in Japanese are characterized by the conjunction of submorphemic components (or radical) and their "companions. " Two experiments investigated the roles of radical token-frequency (i.e., the number of occurrences of the radical in written materials) and of radical neighborhood size (i.e., the number of kanji members contain...

Kanji are categorized into four types based on the combination of "subword validity" (when the right phonemic radical represents the same On reading as the whole Kanji character) and "radical-neighbor consistency" (when the whole Kanji character represents the same On reading with all its neighbor characters). The study demonstrated that both subwo...

Four experiments are reported here to address the question of whether figurative and phonological processing based on sub-word components (radicals) interact in the recognition of Japanese kanji characters. A delayed matching task was used in which two briefly exposed source characters (e.g., ), each made up by two radicals, were followed by a prob...

国立情報学研究所で電子化したコンテンツを使用している。 This study investigates the cognitive structure towards entities falling between human beings (e.g., mother) and inanimate objects (e.g., dolls), with a particular focus on companion animals and robots. In a semantic differential survey with 75 adjective pairs, 40 undergraduate respondents evaluated their impressions tow...