Writing Systems, Reading Processes, and Cross-Linguistic Influences: Reflections from the Chinese, Japanese and Korean Languages

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Writing Systems, Reading Processes, and Cross-Linguistic Influences
Reflections from the Chinese, Japanese and Korean Languages
Edited by Hye K. Pae
Writing Systems,
Reading Processes,
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Reflections from the Chinese, Japanese
and Korean Languages
Edited by
Hye K. Pae
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Table of contents
Foreword ix
Catherine McBride
Chapter 1
Written languages, East-Asian scripts, and cross-linguistic influences:
An introduction 1
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Part 1. Chinese
Chapter 2
Introduction to script processing in Chinese and cognitive consequences
for bilingual reading 25
Candise Y. Lin, Min Wang and Anisha Singh
Chapter 3
Visual factors in writing system variation: Measurement and implications
for reading 49
Li-Yun Chang and Charles A. Perfetti
Chapter 4
How do phonological awareness, morphological awareness, and vocabulary
knowledge relate to word reading within and between English and Chinese? 73
Poh Wee Koh, Xi Chen and Alexandra Gottardo
Chapter 5
The complexities of written Chinese and the cognitive-linguistic precursors
to reading, with consequent implications for reading interventions 99
Sylvia Chanda Kalindi, Kevin Kien Hoa Chung, Duo Liu
and Li-Chih Wang
Chapter 6
Semantic processing and development in Chinese as a second language 121
Nan Jiang
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Chapter 7
Brain mechanisms of Chinese word reading 137
Fan Cao
Chapter 8
Semantic and lexical processing of words across two languages
in Chinese-English bilinguals 163
Fengyang Ma, Haiyang Ai and Taomei Guo
Part 2. Japanese
Chapter 9
Introduction to the multi-script Japanese writing system
and word processing 179
Terry Joyce and Hisashi Masuda
Chapter 10
L1-referenced phonological processing in Japanese-English bilinguals 201
Michelle Broekhuyse and Marcus Taft
Chapter 11
Constituent-priming investigations of the morphological activation
of Japanese compound words 221
Hisashi Masuda and Terry Joyce
Chapter 12
The intertwining effects of first language and learning context
on the bilingual mental lexicon 245
Nobuhiko Akamatsu
Chapter 13
Orthographic and phonological processing in L2-English word recognition:
Longitudinal observations from Grade 9 to 11 in EFL learners in Japan 267
Junko Yamashita
Chapter 14
Cross-linguistic interactions in L2 word meaning inference in English
as a foreign language 293
Keiko Koda and Ryan T. Miller
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Chapter 15
Sociocultural implications of the Japanese multi-scripts:
Translanguaging in translation 313
Eriko Sato
Part 3. Korean
Chapter 16
The Korean writing system, Hangul, and word processing 335
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Chapter 17
Crosslinguistic influences of script format: L1-derived syllabification
in reading L2 English among native Korean readers 353
Hye K. Pae, Sun-A Kim, Quintino R. Mano and Min Wang
Chapter 18
Subunit priming effects on lexical decision in Korean:
Both body and rime units are important in Korean 373
Sungbong Bae, Hye K. Pae and Kwangoh Yi
Chapter 19
Cognitive-linguistic skills and reading and writing in Korean Hangul,
Chinese Hanja, and English among Korean children 391
Jeung-Ryeul Cho
Chapter 20
Neural mechanisms of reading in Korean L1 and related L2 reading 411
Say Young Kim and Min Wang
Chapter 21
Constituent processing or gestalt processing?
How native Korean speakers read mutilated words in English 427
Hye K. Pae, Sun-A Kim and Xiao (Peter) Luo
Chapter 22
Looking ahead: Theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical implications 447
Han Suk Bae, R. Malatesha Joshi and Hye K. Pae
Index 459

Foreword
Catherine McBride
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
This volume represents a comprehensive and critical analysis of script learning in
three of the most prominent East Asian scripts. Although there have been previously
published books on reading and writing of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean before
(Goodman, Wang, Iventosch, & Goodman, 2012; Li, Tan, Bates, & Tzeng, 2006; Lee,
Kim, & Simpson, 2009; Nakayama, Mazuka, & Shirai, 2006), the focus of this volume
is timely in its specific interests in features of all three writing systems, including
some overlaps and differences among them, particularly at the word level, and also
on its explicit bilingual/biscriptal focus. In particular, several chapters target the
increasingly important issue of learning to read in two or more (sometimes multi-
ple, see Joyce & Matsuda, this volume) scripts. In Japanese, this is simply required.
Kanji, which has been adopted from the Chinese script, and kana, which is a syllabic,
sound-based system, must both be learned and routinely used by Japanese readers,
and these have varying degrees of difficulty. Some Korean readers also still make use
of both Hangul, the Korean script, which is sound based, and Hanja, the adopted
Chinese script. Chinese children and adults typically learn only one Chinese script
(Chinese characters – simplified in Mainland China and Singapore; traditional in
Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau), but most also learn a simple phonological coding
system such as Pinyin, taught in Mainland Chinese, or Zhuyin-Fuhao, taught in
Taiwan, to serve as an aid to pronouncing Chinese characters. Moreover, in many
places in which Chinese, Japanese, and Korean script(s) are learned as native scripts,
English is routinely taught as a foreign language and script to be learned. There are
ongoing debates about the extent to which there is transfer or various cross-linguistic
influences on learning to read across orthographies. At the word level, such transfer
has been explored in relation to phonological processing, morphological processing,
and even orthographic processing (e.g., McBride, 2016).
The scholarship in this volume should be of great interest to a large segment of
the world’s population because of the sheer numbers of learners it represents. In my
perusals of several Wikipedia, Explorapedia, and other internet sites on language-/
script-learning, I gleaned some very rough statistics on worldwide percentages of
readers of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Most sites do not focus on scripts per se