TY - JOUR
T1 - Word frequency and root-morpheme frequency effects on processing of Korean particle-suffixed words
AU - Koh, Sungryong
AU - Yoon, Nakyeong
AU - Yoon, Si On
AU - Pollatsek, Alexander
N1 - Funding Information:
Correspondence should be addressed to Alexander Pollatsek, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002, USA. E-mail: [email protected] This study was supported by Seoul National University Humanities Overseas Training funding which was given to the first author.
PY - 2013/2/1
Y1 - 2013/2/1
N2 - 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).
AB - 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).
KW - Korean
KW - Particle-suffix
KW - Root frequency
KW - Word frequency
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U2 - 10.1080/20445911.2012.740482
DO - 10.1080/20445911.2012.740482
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84874428374
SN - 2044-5911
VL - 25
SP - 64
EP - 72
JO - Journal of Cognitive Psychology
JF - Journal of Cognitive Psychology
IS - 1
ER -