Journal article
Word frequency and root-morpheme frequency effects on processing of Korean particle-suffixed words
Journal of cognitive psychology (Hove, England), Vol.25(1), pp.64-72
02/01/2013
DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2012.740482
Abstract
Two experiments investigated the roles of the frequency of the root morpheme and the frequency of the whole word for a particular type of suffixed word in Korean in which the suffixed word can be thought of as a phrase (e.g., grandson-with). In both experiments, sentence frames were constructed so that they could have one of two target words that varied on frequency characteristics in the same location in the sentence. In Experiment 1, the frequency of the root morpheme was varied with the frequency of the word controlled, and in Experiment 2, the frequency of the word was varied with the frequency of the root morpheme controlled. Word frequency had a significant effect on fixation times, whereas root morpheme frequency did not. The results were surprising as native Korean speakers view the root morpheme as the word (analogous to how English readers would view a noun followed by a prepositional phrase).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Word frequency and root-morpheme frequency effects on processing of Korean particle-suffixed words
- Creators
- Sungryong Koh - Seoul National UniversityNakyeong Yoon - Seoul National UniversitySi On Yoon - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignAlexander Pollatsek - University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of cognitive psychology (Hove, England), Vol.25(1), pp.64-72
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- DOI
- 10.1080/20445911.2012.740482
- ISSN
- 2044-5911
- eISSN
- 2044-592X
- Number of pages
- 9
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/01/2013
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Record Identifier
- 9984258851402771
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