2015, Vol.36, No.

인문논총 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.42

pISSN : 2005-6222 / eISSN : 2713-7511
https://journal.kci.go.kr/ifhs

This study aims to investigate the differences in phonetic realization of segments, especially consonants including consonant clusters, in English verb-noun conversion pairs between native speakers of English and Korean English learners. This study found that native speakers of English had a tendency to produce segments in the stressed syllable considerably longer than the ones in the unstressed syllable. In contrast,Korean English learners did not make segments in the stressed syllable as long as native speakers of English in a consistent way. These results provide useful information for English learners in terms of the relation between English stress pattern and segmental duration. Furthermore, it turned out that in utterances of Korean English learners, vowel epenthesis occurred between /k/ and liquids but not between /s/ and stops.

The purpose of this study was to validate Dörnyei’s (2005, 2009) L2 Motivational Self System (IdealL2 self, Ought-to L2 self, and L2 learning experience) in Korean college contexts as a follow-up study of Kang(2014). This study examined the effects of L2 motivations on motivated behavior of Korean university studentsthrough stepwise regression analyses using questionnaires. The results showed that the L2 Motivational SelfSystem explained motivated behavior better than Gardner’s (1985) integrativeness. However, the two components,L2 learning experience, and Ought-to L2 self, played more important roles than ideal L2 self in L2motivation. In addition, this study revealed some differences between high and low proficiency levels. Eventhough L2 learning experience strongly and equally explained the motivated behavior of both levels, the lowlevels were influenced by more affective sides such as integrative orientation and interests in foreign languages,while the high levels were influenced by pragmatic values of L2 learning. However, gender differences in L2motivations did not appear in Korean contexts. The theoretic discussions will be made at the conclusion.

In literature, there are mainly two rival approaches for the FNQ-constructions in Korean andJapanese, the ‘Locality’ and the ‘Cyclic Linearization.’ And the former approach again has two distinct versions,a traditional ‘strong’ view (Haig, 1980; Kuroda, 1980; Miyagawa, 1989, 2001; Saito, 1985, etc.) and a ‘weaker’view proposed by Miyagawa and Arigawa (2007) and Miyagawa (2010), This paper examines all these approachesin a wide variety of scrambling contexts, and shows that the revised Locality (i.e., a weak Locality) isthe best; it explains many recalcitrant examples that pose significant problems under the other approaches. Inthis paper, I maintain that the revised locality still has some shortcomings. Crucially, it is a stipulation; it doesnot give an account as to why the subject-object asymmetry occurs in the distribution patterns of FNQs andwhy only subjects, but not objects, leave a licensing trace optionally. This paper claims that the real heart of theinvestigation to this area of research is; how we could explain the bewildering variety of trace patterns in a simpleand principled way.