title: Korean deaf adolescents' recognition of written words for taxonomic categories of different levels.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. li-degao@163.com
authors.forename: Degao
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Kwangoh
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.forename: Jung Yeon
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D044466:Asian People; D002648:Child; D003638:Deafness / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D014825:Vocabulary