Absence of Letter Transposition Effects in Korean Word Recognition

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Letter transposition effect is a solid phenomenon for English alphabet, supporting a model that letter position is not specified. In this study, letter transposition effects in Korean was investigated by observing patterns of performance on various types of stimuli containing transposed letters. Experiment 1 and 2 tested the letter transposition effects by exchanging onset and vowel, or vowel and coda of a syllable in lexical decision. Experiment 3 tested the letter transposition effects by exchanging middle two letters of 3 syllable words. Letter transposition effects have not been emerged at all cases for Korean. These results support the view that Korean can be location specific, and it might be processed by onset, vowel, and coda basis

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