{"pk":50294,"title":"A comparison of transposed-character effect between Chinese and Japanese speakers: Are they equally strict in processing position information of Hanzi/Kanji characters?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Transposed-letter (TL) effect means that TL pseudowords (e.g., mnokey) are more likely recognized as their base words (monkey) than substituted-letter nonwords (markey). Compared to TL effect studies, transposed-character (TC) effect studies on logograms, such as Chinese Hanzi and Japanese Kanji, remain limited. This study compared the TC effect between Chinese and Japanese speakers using a lexical decision task. Twenty Chinese and 21 Japanese speakers were presented the same two-character stimuli including TC pseudowords (界世-世界), control nonwords with a substituted character (界座) and real filler words. Chinese participants exhibited a TC effect: they took longer to reject TC pseudowords and misidentified them more frequently than control nonwords. Conversely, Japanese participants showed no TC effect: their reaction times and error rates showed no significant differences across two conditions. These findings suggest that Chinese speakers process Hanzi/Kanji character-position more flexibly than do Japanese speakers.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Linguistics; Psychology; Morphology; Reading; Quantitative Behavior"}],"section":"Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1w1481hn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Yaoyao","middle_name":"","last_name":"Geng","name_suffix":"","institution":"Hiroshima University","department":""},{"first_name":"Aiko","middle_name":"","last_name":"Morita","name_suffix":"","institution":"Hiroshima University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50294/galley/38256/download/"}]}