Are onsets and codas important in processing letter position? A comparison of TL effects in English and Korean

Lee, Chang H.; Taft, Marcus

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2009.01.002

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“…Using a masked-priming technique, Forster, Davis, Schoknecht, and Carter (1987) established that identity primes (e.g., what-WHAT) and transposed-letter primes (e.g., waht-WHAT) yielded equivalent facilitation on word recognition, and further, that both of these types of primes yielded more facilitation than did replaced-letter primes (e.g., wrut-WHAT). This basic finding has now been observed across a number of the world's languages (e.g., Lee & Taft, 2009;Perea & Lupker 2004;Schoonbaert & Grainger, 2004).…”

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Letter transpositions within and across morphemic boundaries: Is there a cross-language difference?

Sánchez‐Gutiérrez

Rastle

2013

Psychon Bull Rev

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Research on the impact of letter transpositions that arise across morpheme boundaries has yielded conflicting results. These results have led to the suggestion that a crosslinguistic difference may exist in the recognition of Spanish and English words. In two masked-priming experiments run on separate groups of Spanish and English speakers, we tested this hypothesis by comparing the impacts of primes with letter transpositions that arose within morphemes or across morpheme boundaries on the recognition of identical or nearidentical Spanish-English cognate targets. The results showed transposed-letter benefits in both Spanish and English that were not modulated by the position of the transposed letter in the prime stimulus. Our findings therefore add to the growing body of literature suggesting that the transposed-letter benefit is not affected by the position of the transposed letters relative to the morpheme boundary, and they dispel previous suggestions that there might be a genuine difference in orthographic coding across the Spanish and English writing systems.Keywords Visual word recognition . Orthography . Masked primingThe recognition of a printed word such as pot requires the analysis of letter identity (p, o, t) as well as of letter order (that the p goes before both the o and the t). In the absence of an analysis of letter order in the word recognition process, readers would be unable to detect the difference between anagram stimuli such as pot, opt, and top, which share the same letters, but in different configurations. Yet, despite the importance of letter order for disambiguating similar words, recent research has shown that letter position coding is surprisingly imprecise (see Davis, 2005;Grainger, 2008).

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Letter transpositions within and across morphemic boundaries: Is there a cross-language difference?

Sánchez‐Gutiérrez

Rastle

2013

Psychon Bull Rev

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“…3 Thus, the present data suggest that the stage of letter/mora position coding is-to some degree-language independent. We acknowledge, however, that factors such as visual format (as Korean Hangul; see Lee & Taft, 2009) or the morphological characteristics of a given language (e.g., the ordering of the root letters in Semitic languages; Velan & Frost, 2009; see also Perea, Abu Mallouh, García-Orza & Carreiras, 2010) may influence the process of letter position coding.…”

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Transposition effects in reading Japanese Kana: Are they orthographic in nature?

Perea

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Leeuwen³

2010

Mem Cogn

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One critical question for the front end of models of visual-word recognition and reading is whether the stage of letter position coding is purely orthographic or whether phonology is (to some degree) involved. To explore this issue, we conducted a silent reading experiment in Japanese Kana-a script in which orthography and phonology can be easily separated-using a technique that is highly sensitive to phonological effects (i.e., Rayner's (1975) [アメリカ]). Thus, these findings offer strong support for the view that letter/mora position coding during silent reading is orthographic in nature.

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“…Indeed, it was more than 50 years ago that Bruner and O'Dowd (1958) found that nonwords created by letter transpositions (e.g., jugde) resembled their base words to a large degree (see also O'Connor & Forster, 1981, for early evidence). The transposed-letter effect has been obtained across a variety of paradigms, not only in other IndoEuropean languages (e.g., in Spanish, Perea & Lupker, 2004;in French, Schoonbaert & Grainger, 2004) but also in other families of languages (e.g., in Basque, Perea & Carreiras, 2006; in Japanese kana, Perea & Pérez, 2009;in Thai, Winskel et al in press; in Korean Hangul, Lee & Taft, 2009).…”

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Are all Semitic languages immune to letter transpositions? The case of Maltese

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Are onsets and codas important in processing letter position? A comparison of TL effects in English and Korean

Cited by 66 publications

References 45 publications

Letter transpositions within and across morphemic boundaries: Is there a cross-language difference?

Letter transpositions within and across morphemic boundaries: Is there a cross-language difference?

Transposition effects in reading Japanese Kana: Are they orthographic in nature?

Are all Semitic languages immune to letter transpositions? The case of Maltese

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