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Korean deaf adolescents’ recognition of written words for taxonomic categories of different levels
Author(s) -
LI DEGAO,
YI KWANGOH,
KIM JUNG YEON
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2010.00853.x
Subject(s) - psychology , linguistics , cognitive psychology , representation (politics) , word association , ordinate , word (group theory) , association (psychology) , communication , developmental psychology , mathematics , philosophy , politics , political science , psychoanalysis , law , psychotherapist , geometry
Li, D., Yi, K. & Kim, J.Y. (2011). Korean deaf adolescents’ recognition of written words for taxonomic categories of different levels. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 52 , 105–112. Deaf college students seem to have relatively stronger associations from words for taxonomic categories of basic (e.g., snake ) to those of super‐ordinate (e.g., reptiles ) level than vice versa compared with hearing students in word association (Marschark, Convertino, McEvoy & Masteller, 2004). In deciding whether two sequentially presented words for taxonomic categories of different levels are conceptually related, deaf adolescents might therefore have a poorer performance when they see a category name before than when they see it after one of the corresponding exemplar words. Deaf Korean adolescents were found to recognize words for taxonomic categories of super‐ordinate level with lower efficiencies than those of basic level. Their accuracy seemed to reflect a reversed typicality effect when they decided that first‐presented words for taxonomic categories of basic level were conceptually related to second‐presented words for those of super‐ordinate level. It was argued that deaf Korean adolescents went through a temporary stage of having iconic representations of several exemplars of the category aroused in working memory before the abstract semantic representation was fully activated when they saw the word for a taxonomic category of super‐ordinate level.