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The Processing of Japanese Kana and Kanji Characters

  • Jones E
  • Aoki C
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (1988), 301-320
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-01093-8_17
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Abstract

Japanese can be written in either phonetic (Kana) or logographic (Kanji) characters (see Fig. 1). Each of these scripts can express almost any word in the Japanese lexicon. Kanji are of Chinese origin, having been derived from archaic pictograms (as shown in Fig. 2)...

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Jones, E. A., & Aoki, C. (1988). The Processing of Japanese Kana and Kanji Characters. In The Alphabet and the Brain (pp. 301–320). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-01093-8_17

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