김선회. 2019. 한국어 음성상징어의 자음 분포 특성. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 25.3. 387-414.

This paper takes a corpus-based approach to Korean sound-symbolic words, focusing on the relative frequencies of consonants across different groups of words. Through a quantitative analysis of the data, it is shown that Korean sound-symbolic words exhibit a skewed consonantal distribution. The characteristics of consonantal distribution in Korean sound-symbolic words are as follows. First, by and large, the relative frequencies of syllable-onset tensed obstruents in sound-symbolic words are higher than those in other groups of words. Second, in sound-symbolic words, the frequencies of syllable-onset tensed obstruents are much higher than those of syllable-onset aspirated ones. Third, sound-symbolic words favor velars and the lateral /l/. Particularly, in syllable-coda position the frequencies of /k, ŋ, l/ are much higher than those of the other consonants. (Chung-Ang University, Professor) 

Keywords: sound-symbolic words, relative frequency, tensed consonants, aspirated consonants, consonantal distribution