Research suggests that readers of Korean Hangul demonstrate precise orthographic coding. In contrast to findings from many other languages, the identification of Hangul words is not speeded by prior masked presentation of transposition primes relative to substitution primes. The present studies asked whether evidence for precise orthographic coding is also observed in the same-different task – a task claimed to reflect pre-lexical orthographic representations. Experiments tested whether masked transposed-letter (Experiment 1) or transposed-syllable-block (Experiment 2) primes facilitate judgments about whether a target matches a reference stimulus. In contrast to previous results using lexical decision, significant transposition effects were observed in both cases. These findings add weight to the proposition that apparent differences across writing systems in the precision of orthographic coding may reflect demands of the word identification process rather than properties of orthographic representations themselves.

研究表明，韩文的读者表现出精确的正字法编码。与许多其他语言的发现相反，韩文单词的识别并没有通过先前掩蔽的转置素数相对于替代素数的呈现来加速。目前的研究询问是否在相同的不同任务中也观察到精确正字法编码的证据——一项声称反映前词汇正字法表示的任务。实验测试了掩码转置字母（实验 1）或转置音节块（实验 2）素数是否有助于判断目标是否与参考刺激相匹配。与之前使用词汇判定的结果相比，在两种情况下都观察到了显着的换位效应。