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In:Phonological and Phonetic Considerations of Lexical Processing
Edited by Gonia Jarema and Gary Libben †
[Benjamins Current Topics 80] 2015
► pp. 87–100

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The locus of the masked onset priming effect

Evidence from Korean

 | University of Texas at Arlington
 | University of Texas at Arlington
 | University of Texas at Arlington
Published online: 1 October 2015
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https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.80.04wit
This study investigates the masked onset priming effect (MOPE) in Korean. The results revealed facilitated naming for nonwords written in the alphabetic syllabary hangul when primes and targets shared an initial consonant-vowel (CV) syllable as well as when they shared only an initial onset (C) phoneme. However, there was greater priming at the syllable level than at the phoneme level. Taken together with previous research on Korean (Kim & Davis, 2002), these findings indicate that the MOPE reflects facilitated grapheme-to-phoneme conversion processes when the pronunciation of the target is computed through the nonlexical route, and are interpreted to support the Forster and Davis (1991) model of this effect.
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