Congratulations, Miyeon Ahn!
Miyeon Ahn’s Qualifying Research Paper, Experimental Investigation of Consonant Cluster Simplification, has been approved by its readers and Miyeon is now advanced to Doctoral Candidacy.
Congratulations, Miyeon!
Abstract: In linguistic phenomena that allow phonological variation,
one variant is often preferred to the others. Traditionally, it has
been argued that the preference depends, amongst other things, on
perceptual knowledge and this argument has led to theories that
incorporate perceptibility in the grammar. The purpose of this study
is to investigate the factors that are involved in phonological
variation. Based on experimental evidence involving consonant cluster
simplification in Korean, I argue that language users consider
information about morphology, frequency and the OCP as well as about
perceptibility and that they apply the integrated information to
consonant cluster resolution.