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  • 32 - Lexical and sublexical processes in Korean word recognition

  • from Part II - Language processing
  • Edited by Chungmin Lee, Seoul National University, Greg B. Simpson, University of Kansas, Youngjin Kim, Ajou University, Republic of Korea
  • General editor Ping Li, Pennsylvania State University
  • Book: The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics
  • Published online: 05 June 2012
  • Print publication: 13 August 2009, pp 418-422

  • Summary

    The purpose of writing is to represent speech. In writing, a unit of print represents a unit of the speech stream. Writing systems differ, however, in how they define ‘unit of the speech stream’ for the purpose of writing. In a logography such as Chinese, the unit of speech represented by a character is the morpheme. A syllabary, such as the Kana scripts of Japanese, represents each syllable with a single character. A large majority of the world's languages today use an alphabetic system, in which each character (or combination of characters) represents a single phoneme.

    Alphabetic systems also vary in the consistency of the mapping between print and sound. In ‘shallow’ orthographies (such as Spanish, Italian, or, in the present case, Korean), there is close correspondence between written characters and the phonemes they represent. In a ‘deep’ orthography such as English, this correspondence is compromised. For example, the letter c may be pronounced either as /k/, as in cat, or /s/, as in circle. A number of studies have examined the degree to which a reader's knowledge of the sound system affects the processing of printed words. Because of the many inconsistencies found in English in the relation between spelling and pronunciation, it is perhaps not surprising that it has been the focus of so much of the research in this area.

    Much of this research has investigated issues concerned with word regularity.

The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics
  • Volume 3, Korean
  • Edited by Chungmin Lee, Greg B. Simpson, Youngjin Kim
  • General editor Ping Li
  • Published online: 05 June 2012
  • Print publication: 13 August 2009
  • A large body of knowledge has accumulated in recent years on the cognitive processes and brain mechanisms underlying language. Much of this knowledge has come from studies of Indo-European languages, in particular English. Korean, a language of growing interest to linguists, differs significantly from most Indo-European languages in its grammar, its lexicon, and its written and spoken forms - features which have profound implications for the learning, representation and processing of language. This handbook, the third in a three-volume series on East Asian psycholinguistics, presents a state-of-the-art discussion of the psycholinguistic study of Korean. With contributions by over sixty leading scholars, it covers topics in first and second language acquisition, language processing and reading, language disorders in children and adults, and the relationships between language, brain, culture, and cognition. It will be invaluable to all scholars and students interested in the Korean language, as well as cognitive psychologists, linguists, and neuroscientists.