김선회, 남성현. 한국어의 단어 빈도와 단어와 음절의 분포적 특성. 

Kim, Sun-Hoi and Sunghyun Nam. 2020. Word frequency and the distributional characteristics of words and syllables in Korean. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 26.3. 411-436. This paper analyzes the distributional characteristics of Korean words and syllables in relation to word frequency. Five sub-lexicons of Korean are made on the basis of word frequency for this study. The sub-lexicons are compared with respect to the distributions of words and syllables. The analysis shows that the sub-lexicon of high frequency words (i.e. use frequency of 1,500 times or more) exhibits a marked difference in the distributional characteristics of words and syllables. According to the analysis, when other words are added to the sub-lexicon of high frequency words, meaningful changes are observed in the distributional characteristics. The analysis shows that word frequency is an important factor that should be considered in the analysis of the distributional characteristics of words and syllables in Korean. (Chung-Ang University, Professor and The University of British Columbia, PhD student)

 

Keywords: word frequency, word length, number of syllables, frequency of syllable types, CV, CVC(C)