Processing of English /s/ in Korean: The role of duration Choe, Jinsun and Anderson, Victoria B.,, 16, 188-206 (2014), doi = https://doi.org/10.1075/kl.16.2.04cho, publicationName = John Benjamins, issn = 0257-3784, abstract= The single English phoneme /s/ can be borrowed into Korean as either of two different phonemes — lax /s/ or tense /s*/. The present study investigates how Korean native speakers process English /s/ by testing the role of the duration of English /s/ in determining the choice of phoneme in Korean. Two production experiments were conducted with twenty-eight participants, who were asked to repeat English pseudo-words in Korean. The results suggest that (1) the split borrowing pattern is indeed regular and systematic, and (2) while duration of English /s/ is certainly one factor in determining the split borrowing pattern, it may not be the key factor., language=, type=