The Flexible Use of Phonological Information in Word Recognition in Korean

Simpson, Greg B.; Kang, Hongsuk

doi:10.1006/jmla.1994.1015

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“…On either account, because of the greater consistency that shallow orthographies show between print and pronunciation, readers of such languages should show smaller effects of word-level characteristics than seen in deeper orthographic systems. This prediction is confirmed in the finding that both frequency and priming effects are smaller in shallow-orthography languages, such as Italian (Tabossi & Laghi, 1992), SerboCroatian (Frost, Katz, & Bentin, 1987), and Korean (Kang & Simpson, 1996;Simpson & Kang, 1994).…”

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Local strategic control of information in visual word recognition

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Simpson

2001

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“…The present research extends that of Simpson and Kang (1994), conducted in Korean. The Korean writing system possesses several characteristics that make it highly suitable for addressing questions of lexical and sublexical processing.…”

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Local strategic control of information in visual word recognition

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Simpson

2001

Memory & Cognition

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“…In another study, Korean readers exhibited no effect of word frequency when the stimulus list consisted entirely of words written in the orthographically shallow Hangul script, whereas when stimuli were mostly written in Hanja (which is orthographically much deeper) a significant frequency effect was obtained (Simpson & Kang, 1994). This pattern suggests that in Korean, as in Japanese, readers may preferentially use the direct access route in reading words written in the deep orthography (Hanja or Kanji), whereas words written in the more shallow orthography (Hangul or Kana) may promote the use of phonological assembly.…”

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Orthographic characteristics speed Hindi word naming but slow Urdu naming: evidence from Hindi/Urdu biliterates

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Two primed naming experiments tested the orthographic depth hypothesis in skilled biliterate readers of Hindi and Urdu. These languages are very similar on the spoken level but differ greatly in script; Hindi is a highly transparent script, whereas Urdu is more opaque. It was accordingly hypothesized that formbased priming would be greater for Hindi than Urdu, reflecting greater reliance on a phonological assembly route in the more transparent Hindi script. Proficient Hindi/ Urdu biliterate readers were presented with primes either in Hindi or Urdu script (Exp. 1), or in Roman transcription (Exp. 2), while targets were always in blocks of Hindi or Urdu. Across both experiments, form-based priming was observed only in Hindi. Additionally, target words were named significantly faster and better in Hindi than in Urdu. The results are taken as support for the hypothesis of differential reliance on phonological assembly as a function of script transparency. Further, the greater graphemic complexity of Urdu script relative to Hindi appears to have contributed to slower and less accurate overall single word reading for Urdu than Hindi, despite the fact that Urdu was the first learned script.

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“…Recent psycholinguistic studies of Korean suggest that the two scripts are processed differently: for example, Hangul words are named much faster than the same words written in Hanzza (Nam, 1995;Park & Vaid, 1995;Simpson & Kang, 1994). Moreover, Hangul words are recognized more rapidly in a mixed list when they predominate in the list; Hanzza words are not affected by their proportion in a mixed list (Simpson & Kang, 1994).…”

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“…Moreover, Hangul words are recognized more rapidly in a mixed list when they predominate in the list; Hanzza words are not affected by their proportion in a mixed list (Simpson & Kang, 1994). These together with other differences between the two scripts (e.g., in repetition priming and lexical decision tasks) point to a difference in lexical access whereby reading in the more ''shallow'' script, Hangul, is more likely to involve the use of a phonological route to word meaning (Nam, 1995).…”

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Hemispheric Asymmetries in Reading Korean: Task Matters

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Park

1997

Brain and Language

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Native Korean readers were studied in a visual half-field paradigm. Subjects were to make speeded judgments on Hangul (syllabic) and Hanzza (logographic) scripts based on phonetic or visual properties of the stimuli. A task by visual field interaction was obtained indicating that, for both scripts, responses on the phonetic task were faster in the right visual field, whereas no visual field differences were found on the visual task. Script type did not interact with visual field. The results support a task-based account of hemispheric differences in verbal processing. © 1997 Academic PressVisual laterality studies with brain-intact right-handers have consistently yielded a right visual field superiority in response accuracy and/or latency. This asymmetry has in turn been thought to reflect left cerebral hemisphere specialization for verbal processing, consistent with the long noted clinical association between aphasia and left-sided brain injury.While the general association between language and the left hemisphere is clearly beyond dispute, there is little agreement over the best way to characterize the precise nature of this association. The canonical finding of a right field superiority in verbal laterality studies is based on studies of a fairly narrow range of subjects (right-handed, monolingual), languages (left to right, alphabetic), stimuli (single words), and tasks (word identification or recognition).In order to better understand both the scope and the nature of laterality effects, it would be instructive to design research that systematically varies some or all potential parameters, including subject, stimulus, and task characteristics (see Hellige, 1993). With respect to subject variables, for example,

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The Flexible Use of Phonological Information in Word Recognition in Korean

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Local strategic control of information in visual word recognition

Local strategic control of information in visual word recognition

Orthographic characteristics speed Hindi word naming but slow Urdu naming: evidence from Hindi/Urdu biliterates

Hemispheric Asymmetries in Reading Korean: Task Matters

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