청년층 여성 화자의 유음화 실현과 저지 요인 연구 -형태 경계 인식과 발화 양상을 중심으로- = A Study on Liquid Assimilation among Young Female Speakers - The Effects of Morphological Boundary Awareness and Speech Style -

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study investigates the realization patterns of liquid assimilation and related language awareness among female speakers in their twenties from the Seoul–Gyeonggi region, focusing on /l-n/ and /n-l/ clusters. The /l-n/ environment exhibited generally low rates of assimilation, influenced by speech style, orthographic awareness, and judgments of clarity. In contrast, /n-l/ clusters showed high assimilation rates in high-frequency disyllabic words, whereas words of three syllables or more displayed substantial variation depending on speakers’ awareness of morphological boundaries and lexical frequency. Comparative analyses of pairs such as nalli–mullalli and kwollyeok–kongkwollyeok demonstrated that sensitivity to morpheme boundaries constitutes a primary factor determining assimilation. Overall, the findings indicate that liquid assimilation among younger speakers functions not as a uniform rule but as a selective variation shaped by the interaction of speech style, morphological boundary perception, lexical frequency, and orthographic influence.