A Lexicon Study on Patterns of Phoneme Sequence Contingency in Korean and English Syllables = A Lexicon Study on Patterns of Phoneme Sequence Contingency in Korean and English Syllables

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

There is a growing body of studies in the field of phonology that examines the role of phonotactic probability in the representation and processing of phonological entities. Although these studies crucially rely on some objective measures of phonotactic probability, the measures have often been limited in that the datasets used were primarily written ones, considering limited types of words like mono-syllabic words. The current study explored this issue by examining whether patterns of phonotactic probability observed in Korean simple CVC forms found in a written corpus can generalize to Korean bi-syllabic words found in a spoken corpus. The current study also examined whether the statistical pattern governing phoneme associations in an L2 language can be acquired by an L2 learner by examining Korean speaker`s sensitivity to the probabilistic patterns of phoneme associations within English syllables in a short-term memory task. Results of the two studies suggest that there appear to exist different patterns of phonotactic probability between simple versus complex words and that Korean learners of English appear not to be sensitive to the probabilistic patterns of phoneme associations in English. Implications of the results are discussed with regard to models of phoneme sequence contingency learning in an L2.