Koji Miwa

TL;DR: This paper examined how the cross-linguistic similarity of translation equivalents affects bilingual word recognition and found that cognates with varying degrees of form overlap between their English and Dutch counterparts showed a large discontinuous processing advantage and were subject to facilitation from phonological similarity.

TL;DR: This article examined contributions of frequency, phonology, and meaning of L1 Japanese words on L2 English word lexical decision processes, using mixed-effects regression modeling, and found that the response times and eye fixation durations of late bilinguals were co-determined by L 1 Japanese word frequency and cross-language phonological and semantic similarities, but not by a dichotomous factor encoding cognate status.

TL;DR: This Lexical decision study with eye tracking of Japanese two-kanji-character words investigated the order in which a whole two-character word and its morphographic constituents are activated in the course of lexical access, the relative contributions of the left and the right characters in lexical decision, the depth to which semantic radicals are processed, and how nonlinguistic factors affect lexical processes.

TL;DR: English and Japanese speakers perceived the two objects to be more similar when they was in the same linguistic categories than when they were in different linguistic categories in their respective languages.

TL;DR: This paper investigated whether the semantic radicals' contribution is orthographic or semantic in nature and found that semantic radicals emerge as not just orthographic components but as fully fledged purely orthographic morphemes.