Luo, XiaoXiaoLuoDr. YANG YikeSun, JingJingSun2024-03-222024-03-222018Luo, X., Yang, Y., & Sun, J. (2018). A study on the Korean and Chinese pronunciation of Chinese characters and learning Korean as a second language. In Politzer-Ahles, S., Hsu, Y. Y., Huang, C. R., & Yao, Y. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 32nd pacific Asia conference on language, information and computation. 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Hong Kong (pp. 428-436). Association for Computational Linguistics.http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/9146Open accessSino-Korean words have their etymological roots in Chinese characters. Previous studies showed that the correspondent relation between Chinese and the Korean pronunciation of Chinese characters facilitates the reading of Sino-Korean words by Chinese learners of Korean as a second language (L2). This study quantifies such correspondence at the syllable level by calculating the degree of correspondence in Korean-Chinese syllables. The degree of correspondence between Korean and Chinese syllables was examined. Results show that among the 406 Chinese character families in Sino-Korean words, 22.7% have an average correspondent consistency lower than 0.5 and 33.3% are equal to or higher than 0.5 but lower than 1. Suggestions for teaching and learning Korean as an L2 are proposed.enConference Paper