한국어 음절 종성 지각에 모국어가 미치는 영향에 대한 연구

A Study on the Effects of the Native Language on Perception of the Syllable Coda consonants of the Korean: With Focus on the Learners of Japanese and Chinese

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of native language on the perception of the final consonants of the Korean language for those who learn the Korean language and whose native language is the Japanese language or the Chinese language. To achieve this, perception experiment was conducted on a total of 108 persons who were learning the Korean language and whose native language is the Japanese language or the Chinese language which is different from the Korean language in the syllable structure and the list of final consonant of their native language. And in order to examine the difference in the perception ability according to the proficiency, the subjects of 108 persons are composed of Japanese of 17 elementary, 14 intermediate, and 7 advanced levels and Chinese of 37 elementary, 19 intermediate, and 14 advanced levels. The results of the perception experiment showed that enhanced proficiency did not automatically lead to the enhancement of the perception abilities. And both Japanese and Chinese subjects were most prominent in perceiving “ㄹ” which is not included in the list of final consonants of their native language. And the Chinese subjects were found to be the second most prominent, after “ㄹ”, in “ㅇ” and “ㄴ”, whose corresponding sound exist in the list of final consonants of their native language. And the Chinese subjects were found to be noticeable in the enhancement of perception abilities of “ㄱ” and “ㄷ” which are not included in the list of final consonants of their native language. Through these results, it was confirmed that the abilities to perceive the final consonants of the Korean language of the learners of the Korean language whose native language is the Japanese language or the Chinese language were found to be strongly influenced by their native language. And I attempted to find the most appropriate theory to explain the perceptive abilities, but it was found that the abilities to perceive the final consonants of the Korean language of the Japanese and Chinese learners of the Korean language could not be clearly explained by any one alone of the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis, Speech Learning Model, and Similarity Differential Rate Hypothesis.