TY - GEN
T1 - The phonological syllable plays a role in lexical access in korean visual word recognition
AU - Youan, Kwon
AU - Kinam, Park
AU - Heuiseok, Lim
AU - Kichun, Nam
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Recently, the influence of phonological information in visual word recognition has attracted a great amount of studies. Especially, languages with a clear syllable boundary, such as Spanish and French, have reported the syllable-based sub-lexical unit in visual word recognition. The present study investigated whether sub-lexical unit in Korean visual word recognition is phonological syllable or orthographic syllable. In Experiment 1, we orthogonally manipulated the number of phonological syllable neighbors and the number of orthographic syllable neighbors in Korean disyllable words and conducted a lexical decision task. In Experiment 2, new words were used in a computational simulation. The results of two experiments showed the inhibitory effect as increasing the number of phonological syllable neighbor. We can account that the inhibitory effect is due to the lexical competition between phonological syllable-based candidates in the lexical level. The present study expands the notion that the syllable is an important sub-lexical unit in visual word recognition and also phonological information is a main function of lexical process.
AB - Recently, the influence of phonological information in visual word recognition has attracted a great amount of studies. Especially, languages with a clear syllable boundary, such as Spanish and French, have reported the syllable-based sub-lexical unit in visual word recognition. The present study investigated whether sub-lexical unit in Korean visual word recognition is phonological syllable or orthographic syllable. In Experiment 1, we orthogonally manipulated the number of phonological syllable neighbors and the number of orthographic syllable neighbors in Korean disyllable words and conducted a lexical decision task. In Experiment 2, new words were used in a computational simulation. The results of two experiments showed the inhibitory effect as increasing the number of phonological syllable neighbor. We can account that the inhibitory effect is due to the lexical competition between phonological syllable-based candidates in the lexical level. The present study expands the notion that the syllable is an important sub-lexical unit in visual word recognition and also phonological information is a main function of lexical process.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICNC.2007.731
DO - 10.1109/ICNC.2007.731
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:38049084712
SN - 0769528759
SN - 9780769528755
T3 - Proceedings - Third International Conference on Natural Computation, ICNC 2007
SP - 536
EP - 542
BT - Proceedings - Third International Conference on Natural Computation, ICNC 2007
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Natural Computation, ICNC 2007
Y2 - 24 August 2007 through 27 August 2007
ER -