The purpose of this study was to make a clear distinction between the effects of neighborhood size (Coltheart, Davelaar, Jonasson, & Besner, 1977) and that of
kanji character frequency on the processing of two
kanji compound words (jukugo).
Kanji characters found in many compound words tend to be frequent, so neighborhood size of
jukugo and the character frequency of the component
kanji of these
jukugo tend to be interrelated. In this study, the effect of neighborhood size on
jukugo with medium subjective frequency was investigated controlling
kanji character frequency. In an experiment using a lexical decision task with 30 participants, neighborhood size, front
kanji character frequency, and. rear
kanji character frequency of
jukugo were manipulated. The results showed that both the neighborhood size and the
kanji character frequency affected the lexical decision of
jukugo. The fact that there was no interaction between front and rear
kanji character frequencies suggests that front and rear characters of
jukugo with medium frequency were processed in a serial fashion.
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