• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.99-115
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• 2021

Unlike most other alphabetic languages, letter transposition effect was not found in Korean except in the syllable level and in the morpheme level. This study was conducted in order to investigate the possible reason of the absence of letter transposition effect in Korean. Based on previous letter transposition studies, this study was to investigate on whether syllable frequency is a moderating variable and is responsible for the absence of the letter transposition effect. The results showed that significant letter transposition effect was found when a transposed non-word has high frequency syllable(e.g., 민주화 → 진무화), while such effect was not seen in a transposed non-word with low frequency syllable. The results showed that the letter transposition effect can found in Korean as well. The results also implicate the possibility that syllable frequency is the main moderating variable regarding the Korean letter transposition effect.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.1-24
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• 2014

Growing boy of studies focus on the letter transposition effect since it gives the information on how letters are coded and what variables are involved in the processes of word recognition. This review investigated various models on letter transposition effect. While most proposed models rely mainly on the bottom-up processes, evidences from various studies suggested the necessity of the top-down variables based on the cognitive processing mechanism. Especially, empirical evidences suggested that Hangul model should include a position specific processing mechanism based on onset, vowel, and coda of the Korean character.