The beginnings of words are, in some informal sense, special. This intuition is widely
shared, for example, when playing word games. Less apparent is whether the intuition is …

In this article we present the Database of Word-Level Statistics for Mandarin Chinese
(DoWLS-MAN). The database addresses the lack of agreement in phonological syllable …

A considerable body of research has investigated the influence of linguistic variables on
comprehensibility and accentedness in L2 speech. However, studies on this topic have …

Although pronunciation teaching has come back into fashion, pronunciation assessment
remains mostly focused on evaluating global qualities (Isaacs & Trofimovich, 2017; Kang & …

The availability of online databases (eg, Balota et al., 2007) and calculators (eg, Storkel &
Hoover, 2010) has contributed to an increase in psycholinguistic-related research, to the …

We examined if North (n= 123) and South Korean (n= 123) children in Grades 3 to 8
studying in South Korea differ in their reading, vocabulary, and literacy-related cognitive …

This study investigated the influences of lexical characteristics and talker accent on English
spoken word recognition by first-language (L1) Korean second-language (L2) speakers of …

In many languages, there are words whose spelling and phonological form do not form a
one-to-one relationship. The focus of this study is on Korean and English heterophonic …

ABSTRACT The Journal of Studies in Language 36.3, 263-284. This paper analyzes the
various sizes of Korean lexicons (39 lexicons ranging from 1,592 words to 101,804 words) in …

Studies in Linguistics 60, 1-37. This study analyzed the syllable-based phonological
neighborhood networks (PNNs) of Korean words. The network-theoretic representation of …