Perception and lexical representation of the innovative variant of /lp/ in Korean

• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: Tae-Hwan Choi Jeong-Im Han
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제42권 제3호, 711~737쪽, 전체 27쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2025.12.30

국문 초록

As Korean phonotactic constraints do not allow consonant clusters in the syllable coda position, tautosyllabic clusters are realized as a single (first or second) consonant of a cluster when followed by another consonant. However, recent phonetic studies have reported that clusters with a lateral and obstruent have been undergoing a change in preserving the first consonant, or even both consonants. Across two experiments, this study investigated Korean speakers’ perceptual and lexical encoding of an innovative variant (i.e., [lp]) of the cluster /lp/ where the on-going change is most noticeable. Experiment 1 involved a speeded AX discrimination task to examine the perception of the innovative variant. Results revealed that Korean speakers had difficulty discriminating word pairs when one member of the pair contained [lp], suggesting that this variant is not categorically perceived. In Experiment 2, a long-term repetition priming lexical decision task was performed to observe the storage of the innovative variant in the lexicon. Significant priming was found for this variant, which was equivalent to that of the identity pairs, indicating that the innovative variant [lp] is stored as a separate category in long-term memory.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Experiment 1: AX discrimination

3. Experiment 2: Long-term repetition priming

4. Discussion and conclusion

References

키워드

Korean phonotactics consonant clusters variants of /lp/ AX discrimination long-term repetition priming