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Are they real neighbors?: Null effects of syllabic neighbors in Korean word recognition

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.3, pp.211-223
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2018.30.3.001



& (2018). Are they real neighbors?: Null effects of syllabic neighbors in Korean word recognition. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 30(3), 211-223, https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2018.30.3.001

Abstract

In the present study, two experiments were conducted to examine how neighbor words affect Korean visual word recognition. Previous studies have shown that word frequency has a crucial role in word recognition. In addition, some researchers argue that neighbor words that are orthographically or phonologically similar to a target word also affect word recognition. In Korean, neighbor words can be defined as a group of words that share the first syllable with the target word. The type frequency of the syllabic neighbor words refers to the number of neighbor words and the token frequency refers to the accumulated word frequency of the neighbor words. Although previous studies on Korean visual word recognition have shown that the word frequency effect emerges, there are few studies on effects of the type or the token frequency using a factorial design. To this end, we conducted a lexical decision task, in which the type frequency was manipulated in Experiment 1 and the token frequency was manipulated in Experiment 2. The results showed that neither the type nor the token frequency affect response times of the lexical decision task. The results suggest the necessity to further discuss the nature and the characteristics on the effect of syllabic neighbor words in Korean visual word recognition.

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Korean word recognition, Neighborhood effect, Syllable type frequency, Syllable token frequency, Lexical decision task, 한글 단어재인, 이웃 효과, 음절 타입 빈도, 음절 토큰 빈도, 어휘 판단 과제

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