Ahn, Miyeon. 2020. Phonotactics and Speech syllabification by Korean Learners of English. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 26.1, 89-101.
The purpose of th this study is to explore Korean Korean-speaking listeners’ use of English phonetic cues in speech syllabification. By partially replicating the study of Coetzee (2011) with Korean learners of English, we found that native language knowledge plays an important role in determining the syllable structure of a speech stream. Structures ill ill-formed in English were perceptually modified by Korean listeners based on their native phonotactics. The results of the study suggest that the same ac acoustic stimuli are variously interpreted depending on the native language language, and explain how phonological grammar works in cross cross-language speech perception perception. (Hankyong National University)
Keywords: Speech perception,, Korean listeners listeners, phonotactics, vowel epenthesis, English