THE JAPANESE MENTAL LEXICON -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION -- INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS -- THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF JAPANESE PSYCHOLOGY -- THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF JAPANESE PSYCHOLINGUISTICS -- THE SCOPE OF THIS BOOK -- Chapter 2. A HISTORY OF THE JAPANESE ORTHOGRAPHY -- INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS -- KANJI SCRIPT -- Kanji History -- Kanji Policie s -- Kanji Frequencies -- Diachronic Factors in Kanji Frequencies -- Kanji in the Computer Age -- KANA SCRIPTS -- Chapter 3. KANJI PROCESSING -- INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS -- THE STRUCTURE OF KANJI WORDS -- Kanji Architect ure -- On-readings vs. Kun-readings -- Simple Kanji vs. Complex Kanji -- Kanji Attributes -- PHONOLOGICAL INFORMATION IN KANJI WORDS -- Interference from Concurrent Vocalization -- Relevant Chinese Studies -- Summary Conclusions -- SEMANTIC INFORMATION IN KANJI WORDS -- Function of Semantic Radicals -- Interaction of Phonological and Semantic Information -- Collocational Possibilities -- Summary Conclusions -- COMPOUND KANJI -- Introduction -- Whole-Word Access -- Sub-Lexical Access -- Summary Conclusions -- KINETIC INFORMATION IN KANJI WORDS -- FONT-TYPE INFORMATION IN PROCESSING KANJI WORDS -- Chapter 4. ΚΑΝΑ PROCESSING -- INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS -- SYLLABARY INVENTORIES -- PROCESSING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN KANA TYPES? -- Katakana vs. Hiragana Vocabularies? -- Orthographic Attributes of Katakana vs. Hiragana -- DIRECT ACCESS FOR ΚΑΝΑ -- THE ISSUE OF SCRIPT FAMILIARITY FOR ΚΑΝΑ -- Script Variation -- ScriptType Frequency -- Addressed or Assembled Phonological Route? -- Script Type Effects -- Memory and Recall -- CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 5. ROMAJI PROCESSING -- ROMAJI -- Romaji Usage -- LI Script Transfer Effect -- Transliteration Systems -- Chapter 6. KANJI-KÀNA MIXED TEXTS -- KANJI-KANA MAJIRI-BUN -- Kana-only vs. Kanji-mixed Texts.

NON-LINGUISTIC SYMBOLS -- STROOPTEST RESULTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 7. ACQUISITION OF ORTHOGRAPHY SKILLS -- ORTHOGRAPHY SKILLS AND READING -- ΚΑΝΑ ACQUISITION -- Segmentation Skills and Script Type -- Measuring Skilled Readers -- KANJI ACQUISITION -- Kanji Attributes -- Kanji Curriculum -- Asymmetry between Writing and Reading Abilities -- CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISONS OF READING SKILLS AND READING DISABILITIES -- Non-existence of Japanese Dyslexics? -- Characterization of 'Reading Disabilities' -- Implications from Studies of Other Impairments -- CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 8. EYE-MOVEMENT STUDIES -- INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS -- EXPERIMENTAL METHODS IN EYE-MOVEMENT STUDIES -- Basic Eye Movements -- Experimental Methods -- EYE-MOVEMENT STUDIES IN JAPANESE -- Regular Kanji-based Texts -- Kanji-based Texts vs. Kana-only Texts -- Vertical Texts vs. Horizontal Texts -- Scrolling Speed and Window Size -- CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 9. LATERALITY -- INTRODUCTION -- DICHOTOMOUS VIEWS OF LATERALITY IN KANA/KANJI PROCESSING -- The Origin of the Dichotomous View -- Kana Processing -- Kanji Processing -- FUNCTIONAL FACTORS IN LATERALITY PREFERENCES -- Experimental Variables -- Examination of Tasks Involved -- Summary Conclusions -- CLINICAL STUDIES -- Universality -- Right Hemisphere Contribution -- CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 10. CONCLUSIONS -- UNIVERSALITY -- Universal Constraints in Processing Models -- LANGUAGE SPECIFICITY -- Kanji -- Kana -- Acquisition -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX -- INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS -- JAPANESE JOURNALS -- JAPANESE RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS -- REFERENCES -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.