Individual differences in morphological processing: The role of morphemic knowledge in Sino-Korean suffixed word recognition

• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: Jinwon Kang Seong-Hak Jo Joo-Hee Ahn Jung-Hye Choi Sun-Young Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제42권 제2호, 337~363쪽, 전체 27쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2025.06.30

국문 초록

This study examined how morphemic knowledge influences visual recognition of Sino-Koreansuffixed words. Sixty-three Korean young adults completed a masked priming lexicaldecision task including morphological, semantic, and orthographic priming conditions. Overall results revealed significant priming effects across all conditions, with themorphological priming effect much larger than semantic and orthographic effects. Moreimportantly, semantic and orthographic priming effects diminished or disappeared asmorphemic knowledge increased, while morphological priming remained larger andstable. A further group comparison revealed a significant difference in semantic primingonly; a significantly larger effect in low-knowledge group. These findings suggest thatlexical processing mainly depends on morphological decomposition focusing on themorphological cues, shifting away from semantic or orthographic cues with an increasein morphemic knowledge in individuals.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Literature review

3. Method

4. Discussion

5. Conclusion

References

키워드

Korean lexical processing visual word recognition individual differences morphological priming effect morphemic knowledge