Development of Semantic and Phonological Priming in a Shallow Orthography

These studies examined whether the unusual accessibility of phonological information from written Korean affects the word recognition processes of children learning to read it. In Experiment 1, 2nd- and 6th-grade Korean children named target words that were preceded by related or unrelated prime wor...

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Published in:Developmental psychology 1996-09, Vol.32 (5), p.860-866
Main Authors: Kang, Hyewon, Simpson, Greg B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age Differences
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child development
Child psychology
Children
Children & youth
Comparison
Development
Developmental psychology
Elementary School Students
Factors
Female
Foreign Countries
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Korean
Korean language
Language acquisition
Language Development
Male
Phonetics
Phonological priming
Phonology
Priming
Priming (Reading Comprehension)
Priming Effects
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reading
Reading Processes
Semantic priming
Semantics
South Korea
Word Recognition
Words (Phonetic Units)
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Summary:These studies examined whether the unusual accessibility of phonological information from written Korean affects the word recognition processes of children learning to read it. In Experiment 1, 2nd- and 6th-grade Korean children named target words that were preceded by related or unrelated prime words. Priming was found for 6th but not 2nd graders-the opposite of the pattern seen in children reading English. Experiment 2 examined phonological priming in 3rd and 6th graders. Related primes were pseudohomophones of the targets. Younger children tended to show greater priming than did older ones. The results suggest strong reliance on phonological information by children learning to read a script from which such information is easily accessed.
ISSN:0012-1649
1939-0599
DOI:10.1037/0012-1649.32.5.860