Park, Shinae. 2022. An analysis of domestic study trends in English phonology using text mining. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 28.1. 83-110. The purpose of this paper is to analyze domestic studies related to English phonology. Existing literature studies in KCI and RISS are reviewed, and the topics and categories of those studies are classified. The direction of follow-up studies is also suggested based on the analysis. Through this study, researchers are able to understand the interest and flow of past English phonology studies, and, furthermore, meet objective indicators to explore the topics of subsequent research. This study uses text-mining as an analysis tool. Therefore, all the papers used as research subjects are analyzed in a scientific and objective way, and the core research topics are identified by categorizing them. The subjects of this study are 184 domestic theses published in academic journals and 205 domestic dissertations, from 1960 to 2021, whose titles contain ‘English phonology’ phrase. English papers are excluded and only Korean papers are used as analysis data. The findings of this paper show that domestic studies of English phonology are mainly focused on phonological phenomena, phonological changes, phonological awareness, and cross-language comparative analysis studies of Korean and English. There are also studies on English learners’ reading and listening, vocabulary-centered studies, phonological transfer and loanwords. (Kyungpook National University, PhD student)

Keywords: English phonology, text-mining, trends, flow, domestic studies, methodology

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