최태환. 2016. 한국어 설측음화 규칙 위반이 언어처리과정에 미치는 효과, Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 22.1. 105-120.
This study aims to test Weber’s (2001) proposal on the ‘novel popout’ effect in speech sound processing when the lateralization rule is violated in Korean. Weber proposed that violation of a phonological rule would lead to facilitation rather than inhibition in the processing of a sound in the context of weak expectations in progressive assimilation and novel popout. Korean lateral assimilation was chosen in this study because the direction of the assimilation can be progressive and regressive. Two phoneme monitoring tests were performed by 24 Korean native speakers using bisyllabic non-words. One test was for progressive assimilation and the other was for regressive assimilation. The results for both tests showed that target sounds were detected faster when the assimilation rule was violated than when no violation occurred. Overall, this result is in accord with Weber’s (2001) proposal, but this study further showed that the novel popout effect occurred irrespective of the direction of assimilation. (Catholic Kwandong University)