한국언어과학회

This study was conducted to investigate whether the syllable transposition effect is significant for Korean (e.g., 양찬 -> 찬양). The recent study by Rastle et al. (2019) is needed to be retested in the sense that a previous syllable transposition study showed inconsistent results. The pattern of priming by nonword prime and word prime to their targets was experimented in this study. The results showed that all prime types inhibited the processing of targets, and its effect was greater for word prime. These results indicate that the syllable position is specific for Korean, and the activation of neighborhood words are manifest in the priming. Related discussion including differential priming effect by prime type was done to understand early Korean word recognition processes.