Syllable Transposition Effects in Korean Word Recognition

Lee, Chang H.; Kwon, Youan; Kim, Kyungil; Rastle, Kathleen

doi:10.1007/s10936-015-9353-7

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“…In typical Korean words derived from Chinese, syllables often contain meaningful (morphemic) information, although it is also possible to create simple transliterations of foreign words in which syllables comprise no meaningful information. Lee, Kwon, Kim, and Rastle (2015) investigated transposed-syllable effects in both of these types of stimuli using four-syllable words in the the nonword rejection paradigm. They demonstrated that syllable transpositions within both of these types of Korean words yield longer rejection latencies in unprimed lexical decision than matched nonwords that are not syllable transpositions of another word, with no differences reported across these types of Korean words.…”

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“…Further research is needed to understand the nature of this discrepancy. It could reflect a difference between the rapid processes reflected in masked priming and the more strategic processes reflected in the nonword rejection paradigm; or alternatively, it could reflect differences in the nature of items used (and notably, Lee et al, 2015 used four syllable words in comparison to our two-syllable words). However, in respect of the data reported in this article, particularly in the face of the substantial and consistent identity priming effect, and given the Bayesian analyses of these null effects, we are confident that there is no transposition effect lurking in these data.…”

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No flexibility in letter position coding in Korean.

Rastle

Lally

Lee

2019

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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Substantial research across Indo-European languages suggests that readers display a degree of uncertainty in letter position coding. For example, readers perceive transposedletter stimuli such as jugde as similar to their base words (e.g. judge). However, tolerance to disruptions of letter order is not apparent in all languages, suggesting that critical aspects of the writing system may shape the nature of position coding. We investigated readers' tolerance to these disruptions in Korean, a writing system characterized by a high degree of orthographic confusability. Results of three Korean masked priming experiments revealed robust identity priming effects, but no indication of priming due to shared letters or syllables in different positions. Two further masked priming experiments revealed where the Korean findings deviate from English. These results support the claim that the nature of the writing system influences the precision of orthographic representations used in reading. Public Significance StatementIt is widely reported that adults are tolerant to disruptions of letter order in reading. This research demonstrates that this tolerance does not extend to Korean reading. These data suggest that the reading system is shaped by fundamental characteristics of writing systems.

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No flexibility in letter position coding in Korean.

Rastle

Lally

Lee

2019

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“…The first study to investigate position coding of Hangul syllable blocks reported that rejection latencies in unprimed lexical decision were slowed when nonwords were syllable block transpositions of existing words ( Lee et al, 2015 ). This finding would appear to support flexible coding of Hangul syllable blocks.…”

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Masked transposition priming effects are observed in Korean in the same–different task

Lee

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Rastle

2021

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Research suggests that readers of Korean Hangul demonstrate precise orthographic coding. In contrast to findings from many other languages, the identification of Hangul words is not speeded by prior masked presentation of transposition primes relative to substitution primes. The present studies asked whether evidence for precise orthographic coding is also observed in the same-different task – a task claimed to reflect pre-lexical orthographic representations. Experiments tested whether masked transposed-letter (Experiment 1) or transposed-syllable-block (Experiment 2) primes facilitate judgments about whether a target matches a reference stimulus. In contrast to previous results using lexical decision, significant transposition effects were observed in both cases. These findings add weight to the proposition that apparent differences across writing systems in the precision of orthographic coding may reflect demands of the word identification process rather than properties of orthographic representations themselves.

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“…Presumably in both cases, the flexibly coded units were letters, not syllables. However, we note that Lee et al (2015) used the STE to study syllable transpositions without including something similar to the bigram-type control condition of Perea and Carreiras (2006b); having found TEs, they concluded that syllables are functional units for Korean. This may be acceptable in the light of the findings of a lack of STE for letter transposition in Hangul (Lee &Taft, 2009).…”

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“…Lee and Taft (2009) examined TEs in Hangul and did not find TEs involving the coda of the first syllable and onset of the second syllable of a word (compare English nakpin-NAPKIN). However, Lee et al (2015) reported STEs for syllable transpositions in Korean. These findings can be explained in terms of the absence of positional ambiguities for letters but not for syllables.…”

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Transposition Effects in an Aksharic Writing System: The Case of Hindi

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We tested for transposition effects (TEs) in Hindi (a Modern Indo-Aryan language) using unprimed lexical decision. TEs are defined as less accurate and slower responses to transposed-nonwords (e.g., ‹psate›, formed from base-word ‹paste›) than corresponding replaced-nonwords (e.g., ‹pzute›). In Hindi’s orthography, letters map transparently to phonemes (except schwa), but the letters are arranged into “akshars,” (‹[Cn]V›) which encode open syllables. This formal characteristic makes Hindi’s orthography typologically “aksharic.” We used TEs to determine whether the orthography’s typological units, letters and akshars, are also functional units for readers. We conducted three visual word recognition experiments with adult readers whose native language was Hindi. In Experiment 1, we found TEs for consonant (‹C›) and matra (‹M›, a vowel diacritic) letters, using different stimulus sets for each type of transposition. In the next two experiments, we used the same base words to form all of the transposed and replaced items. In Experiment 2, we replicated the findings of Experiment 1 in a different stimulus set; additionally, we found TEs for transpositions between a ‹C› letter and a ‹CM› akshar. In Experiment 3, we replicated results of the first two experiments by finding TEs for both consonants and matras in another stimulus set; additionally, we found similar TEs for ‹CM› akshars. These results show that ‹C› and ‹M› letters are functional units for Hindi readers; the transposition results for ‹CM› akshars are tentative. TEs for letters show that the aksharic grouping of letters does not prevent readers from decoding the constituent letters of akshars. Hindi is read alphabetically.

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Syllable Transposition Effects in Korean Word Recognition

Cited by 10 publications

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No flexibility in letter position coding in Korean.

No flexibility in letter position coding in Korean.

Masked transposition priming effects are observed in Korean in the same–different task

Transposition Effects in an Aksharic Writing System: The Case of Hindi

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