• International Journal of Contents
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.30-37
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• 2014

The current study was conducted to examine the temporal and spatial activation sequences related to morphosyntactic, semantic and orthographic-lexical sentences, focusing on the morphological-orthographic and lexical-semantic deviation processes in Korean language processing. The Event-related Potentials (ERPs) of 15 healthy students were adopted to explore the processing of head-final critical words in a sentential plausibility task. Specifically, it was examined whether the ERP-pattern to orthographic-lexical violation might show linear precedence over other processes, or the presence of additivity across combined processing components. For the morphosyntactic violation, fronto-central LAN followed by P600 was found, while semantic violation elicited N400, as expected. Activation of P600 was distributed in the left frontal and central sites, while N400 appeared even in frontal sites other than the centro-parietal areas. Most importantly, the orthographic-lexical violation process revealed by earlier N2 with fronto-central activity was shown to be complexes of morphological and semantic functions from the same critical word. The present study suggests that there is a linear precedence over the morphological deviation and its lexical semantic processing based on the immediate possibility of lexical information, followed by sentential semantics. Finally, late syntactic integration processes were completed, showing different topographic activation in order of importance of ongoing sentential information.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권10호
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• pp.1879-1890
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• 2011

Previous studies of syllable frequency effects have proposed that inhibitory effects due to high first syllable frequency were the products of competitions between activated lexical candidates within a lexical level. However, these studies have primarily used lexical decision tasks to examine the nature of syllable frequency effects. This study investigates whether a syllable frequency effect can arise in semantic categorization tasks and whether phonologically or orthographically defined syllables interact with semantically related variables such as morphological family size. If the syllable frequency effect was created by activations and competitions on a lexical level, it is highly possible that the effect was related to semantic categorization tasks. To test this hypothesis, we conducted two experiments. In Experiment 1, morphological family size and phonological syllable frequency were factorially manipulated. In Experiment 2, morphological family size and orthographic syllable frequency were factorially manipulated. The results demonstrate that morphemes have no relationship with phonological syllables but do with orthographic syllables. This suggests that phonological syllables and orthographic syllables have different roles in the syllable frequency effect on visual word recognition process.

• 한국정보과학회 언어공학연구회:학술대회논문집(한글 및 한국어 정보처리)
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• 한국정보과학회언어공학연구회 1995년도 제7회 한글 및 한국어 정보처리 학술대회
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• pp.211-214
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• 1995

At what level of orthographic representation is phonology linked in thelexicon? Is it at the whole word level, the syllable level, letter level, etc? This question can be addressed by comparing the two scripts used in Korean, logographic Hanmoon and alphabetic/syllabic Hangul, on a task where judgements must be made about the phonology of a visually presented word. Four experiments are reported using a "homophone decision task" and manipulating the sub-lexical relationship between orthography and phonology in Hanmoon and Hangul, and the lexical status of the stimuli. Hangul words showed a much higher error rate in judging whether there was another word identically pronounced than both Hangul nonwords and Hanmoon words. It is concluded that the relationship between orthography and phonology in the lexicon differs according tn the type of script owing to the availability of sub-lexical information: the process of making a homophone derision is based on a spread of activation exclusively among lexical entries, from orthography to phonology and vice versa (called "Orthography-Phonology-Orthography Rebound" or "OPO Rebound"). The results are explained within the mulitilevel interactive activation model with orthographic units linked to phonological units at each level.

• 인지과학
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.309-333
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• 2009

2음절 한자 합성어의 어휘판단에서 형태소 처리와 글자 처리의 역할을 조사하였다. 실험 1의 단어에 대한 반응에서는 어두와 어말 위치 모두에서 형태소 빈도의 효과는 나타나지 않았으나, 비단어에 대한 반응에서는 글자 빈도의 효과와 글자-형태소 대응의 효과가 나타났다. 빈도가 높은 글자를 포함하는 비단어일수록 반응시간이 길었고, 글자-형태소의 대응이 불투명한 비단어일수록 반응시간이 길었다. 실험 2에서는 실험 1에서 나타난 글자-형태소 대응의 효과를 단어에서 직접 관찰하고자 하였다. 그 결과, 단어 자극에 대해서도 글자-형태소 대응이 불투명할수록 어휘 판단이 느렸으며, 비단어 자극에서 그러한 경향이 더 뚜렷하였다. 본 연구의 결과는, 글자-형태소 대응이 불투명한 단어의 경우 다양한 형태소를 활성화시키게 되고, 그 결과 형태소의 파악은 늦어지고, 결국은 단어 인지의 지연으로 연결된다는 주장을 지지한다. 실험 결과를 바탕으로 하여 한글 표기 한자어의 인지에서 형태소 위치 효과, 글자 빈도의 역할 등에 대해서 논의하였다.