• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1989.10a
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• pp.92-95
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• 1989

단어 인지과정은 언어 이해과정의 한 부분으로, 신속성과 정확성 그리고 심성어휘집을 그 특정으로 한다. 표기 단어의 인지과정에는 그 언어의 정서법 체계가 반영된다. 한국어의 단어 인지과정에 대한 모델 작성의 예비 연구로 음운적 처리와 어휘 근접에서의 정서법적 정보의 역활에 대해 검토하였다. 어휘 근접의 단위에 대한 논의에서는 음절, 자질, 단어등의 형식적 언어학적 단위외에 심리적 단위가 고려되어야 함이 지적되었으며, 그 심리적 단위들과 정서법의 관계에 대해 논의하였다. 마지막으로 한글 단어 인지과정에 관한 한 모델로서 상호작용 활성화 모델의 가능성에 주목하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Cognitive Science Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.47-51
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• 2006

본 실험은 한국어 심성어휘집의 표상 정보가 음운정보로 이루어져 있는지, 철자정보로 이루어져 있는지 알아보기 위해 실시되었다. 실험자극은 한국어의 2음절 단어 중 음운변화(자음동화)를 겪는 단어(예: 국민)를 사용하였으며, 각 조건은 철자이웃이 크며 음운 이웃이 큰 단어 조건(O+P+), 철자이웃이 크고 음운이웃은 작은 단어 조건(O+P-), 철자이웃은 작고 음운이웃이 큰 단어 조건(O-P+), 철자이웃과 음운이웃 모두가 작은 조건(O-P-)이었다 실험 1에서 어휘판단 과제를 실시한 결과, 음운이웃 크기와 철자이웃 크기간의 상호작용이 나타났다. 실험2는 동일한 실험자극을 사용한 fMRI 연구를 수행하였다. 실험2 결과 음운처리에 관련된 뇌영역의 활성화가 나타났다. 본 연구결과는 한국어의 경우 심성어휘집이 음운정보로 이루어져 있음을 시사한다.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.173-175
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• 2007

The lexical decision task (LDT) commonly postulates the activation of semantic level. However, there are few studies for the feedback effect from semantic level. The purpose of the present study is to investigate whether the feedback effect from semantic level is facilitatory or inhibitory in Korean LDT. In Experiment 1, we manipulated the number of phonological syllable neighbors (PSN) and the number of semantic neighbors (SEN) orthogonally while orthographic syllable neighbor (OSN) is dense. In the results, the significant facilitatory effect was shown in words with many SEN. In Experiment 2, we examined same conditions as Experiment 1 but OSN was sparse. Although the similar lexical decision latency pattern was shown, there was no statistical significance. These results can be explained by the feedback activation from semantic level. If a target has many SENs and many PSNs, it receives more feedback activation from semantic level than a target with few SENs and PSNs.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.3819-3828
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• 2015

The present study discusses some of important issues in the word recognition such as the roles of the form(orthographic & phonologic) and semantic information by investigating the processes of Korean heteronym. The priming paradigm has been applied to see whether or not there would be facilitatory effect from form and/or semantic information. In experiment 1, orthographically-related or phonologically-related prime stimuli were presented and a lexical decision task for Korean heteronym was conducted. The same procedure was applied for the experiment 2, except the prime stimulus which was semantically-related. The results showed that orthographic and phonologic information did not influence the processing of the heteronym while semantic information facilitated its processing, suggesting that the semantic information plays an important role in the processes of the Korean heteronym.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 1996.10a
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• pp.53-69
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• 1996

Much research has been done on the rues differentiating the three Korean stops in word initial position. This paper focuses on a more neglected area: the acoustic cues differentiating the medial tense and lax unaspirated stops. Eight adult Korean native speakers, four males and four females, pronounced sixteen minimal pairs containing the two series of medial stops with different preceding vowel qualities. The average duration of vowels before lax stops is 31 msec longer than before their tense counterparts (70 msec for lax vs 39 msec for tense). In addition, the average duration of the stop closure of tense stops is 135 msec longer than that of lax stops (69 msec for lax vs 204msec for tense). THESE DURATIONAL DIFFERENCES ARE 50 LARGE THAT THEY MAY BE PHONOLOGICALLY DETERMINED, NOT PHONETICALLY. Moreover, vowel duration varies with the speaker's sex. Female speakers have 5 msec shorter vowel duration before both stops. The quality of voicing, tense or lax, is also a cue to these two stop types, as it is in initial position, but the relative duration of the stops appears to be much more important cues. The duration of stops changes the stop perception while that of preceding vowel does not. The consequences of these results for the phonological description of Korean as well as the synthesis and automatic recognition of Korean will be discussed.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.1-23
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• 2012

This study investigated the lexical access processing of inflected Korean verbs in the mental lexicon. In Korean, verbs can be classified into two main types of inflections, which are regular and irregular inflections, which can be further divided into three types of regular inflections and two types of irregular inflections. A masked priming lexical decision task was used and the priming effects were compared. Experiments were carried out using the five different types of verbal inflections in Korean: (1) No change-regularity (regular verbs with no orthographical or phonological changes), (2) Phonological change-regularity (regular verbs with phonological changes to the stem only), (3) Orthographical change-regularity (regular verbs that only undergo orthographical changes), (4) Stem change-irregularity (the stem is omitted or alternated with the other phoneme of the stem in irregular verbs), (5) Ending change-irregularity (irregular verbs with changes in the endings by phoneme substitution). The first three types are regarded as regular verbal inflections whereas the latter two types are regarded as irregular verbal inflections. The infinitive forms of the verb were presented as target words and three different conditions were presented as prime words. The three conditions included regular verbal inflection, irregular verbal inflection, and a control condition in which morphologically and semantically unrelated primes were presented. In addition, different stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) were manipulated (43ms, 72ms, 230ms) to examine the time frame of the morphological decomposition process in word recognition. The results revealed that there were significant priming effects in all three SOAs across conditions. Hence, there was no significant differences in priming effects between regular and irregular verbal inflection conditions. This may suggest that Korean verb processing does not adopt different processing routes for regular and irregular inflections, which can also be an indication of earlier morphological information processing for Korean verbs.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.2402-2409
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• 2011

The voice has distinguishable acoustic properties of speaker as well as transmitting information. The speaker recognition is the method to figures out who speaks the words through acoustic differences between speakers. The speaker recognition is roughly divided two kinds of categories: speaker verification and identification. The speaker verification is the method which verifies speaker himself based on only one's voice. Otherwise, the speaker identification is the method to find speaker by searching most similar model in the database previously consisted of multiple subordinate sentences. This paper composes feature vector from extracting MFCC coefficients and uses the dynamic time warping algorithm to compare the similarity between features. In order to describe common characteristic based on phonological features of spoken words, two subordinate sentences for each speaker are used as the training data. Thus, it is possible to identify the speaker who didn't say the same word which is previously stored in the database.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.349-366
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• 2012

Two experiments were conducted to examine the processing of Korean compounds in relation to saisios. Saisios is a letter interposed between constituents when a phonological change takes place on the onset of the first syllable of the second constituent. This saisios rule is often violated by writers, resulting in many words having two spellings: one with saisios and the other without saisios. Among two spellings, some words are more familiar with saisios, some are usually spelled without saisios, and some are balanced. In Experiment 1 using the go/no-go lexical decision task, participants were asked to judge compounds with/without saisios. Saisios-dominant words (나뭇잎 > 나무잎) were responded faster when they appeared with saisios, whereas the opposite was true for words that usually appear without saisios (북엇국 < 북어국). In experiment 2, we presented participants compound words that were balanced on saisios. The results showed that words without saisios were responded faster than words with saisios. To summarize, the results of Experiment 1 and 2 were consistent with the APPLE model. Some problems related to the saisios rule were discussed in terms of reading process.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.101-112
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• 1997

The purpose of this study was to examine usefulness of KEDI-Individual Basic Learning Skills Test as a diagnostic tool of learning disorders(LD). Learning disorder group consisted of two subgroups, verbal learning disorder group(VLD, n＝34) and nonverbal learning disorder group(NVLD, n＝14). Comparison group consisted of Dysthymia Disorder subgroup(n＝11) and Normal subgroup(n＝20). Performance of intelligence test and achievement test was examined in all 4 subgroups. In KEDI-WISC, VLD subgroup revealed primary problems in vocabulary, information and verbal-auditory attention test. NVLD group revealed primary problems in almost all performance tests such as visual acuity, psycho-motor coordination speed and visual-spatial organizations ability subtest. In KEDI-Individual Basic Learning Test, VLD group revealed primary problems in phonological coding process, word recognition and mathematics. For successful classification of LD children, the importance of achievement test and intelligence test was discussed by discriminant analysis and factor analysis. The results indicate that KEDI-Individual Basic Learning Skills is of considerable usefulness in diagnosing LD, but must be used in subtests, and additional tests must be conducted for thorough exploration of LD.