Kim, Sun-Hoi. 2015. 한국 음운론 연구(1995-2014) 관찰. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 21.1. 3-24.
This study explores the characteristics and trends of academic research in phonology over a period of twenty years in Korea, quantitatively investigating 435 articles published in Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology from 1995 to 2014 by The Phonology-Morphology Circle of Korea. The investigation focuses on the words and phrases contained in the article titles. Their occurrence frequencies are counted and their co-occurrence networks are analyzed with measurements of meaningful index values
such as degree, betweenness centrality, eigenvector centrality and edge weight. The study shows that the trends and directions of academic research in phonology in Korea have changed not radically but steadily and dynamically. While Optimality Theory-related words and phrases occurred frequently in article titles and played an important role in the network structure of co-occurring words and phrases before the period of 2010-2014, during this period Optimality Theory gave way to English-Korean inter-language studies of perception and production, an area towards which academic interest has steadily increased since 2000. (Chung-Ang University)
Keywords: Korea, phonology, Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology, The Phonology-Morphology Circle of Korea, 1995-2014, Korean, English.