The Effects of Morphemes on Korean Word Recognition: Revealed on the Frequency and Length Effects

Oh, Jihyang; Choi, Mingyeong; Yi, Hyeon-Woo; Lee, C.H.

doi:10.1109/icnc.2007.722

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“…It seems that the multisyllabic L1 cognates are more easily perceived as a chunk both phonologically and conceptually, although the phonological similarity is lower than the monosyllabic cognate pairs. Indeed, there is a study to show that one-syllable words were processed more slowly than two-syllable words in Korean Hangul (Oh et al, 2007). Oh and colleagues investigated the effect of morphemes, word frequency, and length on Korean word recognition and suggested that more morphological cues in Korean multisyllabic words may increase efficiency of lexical processing.…”

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“…Oh and colleagues investigated the effect of morphemes, word frequency, and length on Korean word recognition and suggested that more morphological cues in Korean multisyllabic words may increase efficiency of lexical processing. (Discussion about the effects of morphemes is out of scope in this study, so please see Oh et al (2007) for more information.) The cognate advantage effect observed here only in the low-phonological cognate pairs in the L1–L2 direction also tells us that the multisyllabic L1 primes serve as more effective primes for L2 targets than monosyllabic Korean words.…”

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Cross-script L1–L2 and L2–L1 masked translation priming and phonological priming: Evidence from unbalanced Korean–English bilinguals

Lim

Christianson

2023

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Aims: Despite a history of research in translation-equivalent priming (either cognate or noncognate and phonological priming with cross-script languages), research with Korean–English bilinguals is very scarce. In this study, we report two masked-priming lexical decision tasks in both directions with Korean–English unbalanced bilinguals, investigating whether cross-language activation occurs depending on different types of cognate, noncognate, and homophone prime–target pairs, the degree of phonological similarity between prime and target, and how L2 proficiency influences each type of priming. Methodology: Two experiments were conducted using a masked translation priming paradigm with unbalanced Korean–English bilinguals: Experiment 1 in the L2–L1 direction and Experiment 2 in the L1–L2 direction. Each experiment used a total of 96 prime–target pairs of cognates, noncognates, and homophones, and 60 subjects for each experiment were asked to judge whether the items were real words or not in a lexical decision task. Data and analysis: Linear mixed-effects models were used to investigate the effects of priming in each condition, the effect of phonological similarity on cognate translation priming, and L2 proficiency. Findings/conclusions: Our results showed that both cognate translation priming and noncognate translation priming arose in the L1–L2 direction, but the phonological priming was not found. In the L2–L1 direction, on the contrary, cognate translation priming and phonological priming effects were observed, but not the noncognate translation priming. Also, the degree of phonological similarity influenced the magnitude of cognate translation priming effects in both directions with a different pattern, supporting for the phonological overlap account between different-script languages. The current study is compatible with the language nonselective activation view and suggests the shared phonological representations even between different-script languages. The results are discussed within several current bilingual lexical processing models.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%