중국인 L2 학습자들의 한국어 음운변동 적용 어휘의 지각 양상

A Study on the Chinese Korean-Learners’ Perception Patterns in Korean phonological rule

The purpose of this study is to investigate how Korean phonological rules affect Chinese Korean-learners’ accuracy of word perception. Since Korean and Chinese have different syllable structure and phonotactics, the realization aspects of phonological process in two languages are not identical. This difference can affect Chinese Korean-Learners’ perception of Korean word. To investigate this assumption, we conducted a perception test based on the text of listening comprehension test of TOPIK and 25 Chinese Korean-learners participated in the test. In the perception test, the subjects dictated what they listened to. Based on the perspective of language information processing theory, the transcribed data were classified into three steps: segmental perception error, phonetic representation (surface form) step, phonological representation(underlying form) step. The results reveal that Chinese Korean-learners often confuse phonetic representation with phonological representation; and they use the phonetic representation to recognize a word. However, phonological rules were more correctly perceived when they appeared in high frequency words.