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The Effect of the Morphological Characteristics on Korean Spoken Word Recognition : Comparing Simple Words and Compound Words

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2018, v.30 no.1, pp.35-51
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2018.30.1.003


& (2018). The Effect of the Morphological Characteristics on Korean Spoken Word Recognition : Comparing Simple Words and Compound Words. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 30(1), 35-51, https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2018.30.1.003

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of the morphological characteristics on Korean spoken word recognition. To do so, Experiment 1 examined whether compound words are sub-divided into morphemes. In this experiment, word types (simple words, compound words) and word frequencies (high, low) were manipulated. Participants performed an auditory lexical decision task. As results, regardless of word frequency, simple words were recognized better than compound words. The results indicate that compound words were separated into morphemes irrespective of word frequency. Experiment 2 further examined the effect of morphological decomposition by adapting syllable frequency effects. In Korean 2 syllable compound words, the first syllable contains a certain morpheme while it is only a part of a morpheme in simple words. Therefore, unlike in simple words, the morphological characteristics of the first syllable of the compound words may have some influences on the syllable frequency effect. Experiment 2 showed larger the syllable frequency effect for simple words compared with compound words, which suggested that facilitation effect of morpheme offsets the inhibitory effect of syllable frequency. Overall, the current experiments clearly suggested that morphological decomposition does occur during spoken word recognition of the Korean compound word.

keywords
청각 단어재인, 형태소, 음절빈도 효과, 단일어, 합성어, Spoken word recognition, morpheme, syllable frequency, simple word, compound word

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