KMID : 0917520070140040041
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Journal of Speech Sciences 2007 Volume.14 No. 4 p.41 ~ p.52
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Effects of Inter-phoneme Probabilities on the Acceptability Judgment of Korean CVC Nonwords
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Lee Yong-Eun
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Abstract
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Recent experimental studies have shown that language-users¡¯ knowledge of the statistical characteristic of their native language plays a key role in their task performance. One specific instance of this that the current study focuses on is the effect of phonotactic probabilities on speakers¡¯ wordlikeness judgment of nonwords. In this paper, I explore the question of whether the judgment of Korean speaking subjects as to the wordlikeness of Korean nonsense words is influenced by the degree of association between two-phoneme sequences in Korean. The current results suggest that the objective measure of correlations (expressed by values) between an onset consonant and a vowel inside Korean syllables play an important role in Korean speakers¡¯ nonword processing. The current results additionally indicate an effect of the correlations of two-phoneme sequences including vowels and coda consonants on nonword processing. Implications of these findings for Korean speakers¡¯ learning the correlations between adjacent segments inside the syllable are discussed.
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KEYWORD
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phonotactic probabilities, wordlikeness, Korean nonword processing
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