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An, Young-ran, 2010. Anti-Identity in Reduplication. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 35-3, 683-701. This paper argues that a general tendency of avoiding identical elements in a phonological process in many unrelated languages also prevails in the Korean language, e.g. the total reduplication with an inserted consonant. This tendency was not only shown in the existing lexicon, but it was also borne out in a real-time nonce form creation, which means that language users appear to have implicit knowledge of identity avoidance. I replicated Wedel’s (1999) methodology for the Turkish reduplication data, based on the data from a dictionary and the results from a word creation experiment. In both the data of reduplication, Korean and Turkish, I found that identity avoidance played a critical role in determining a consonant to be inserted; however, there were some non-trivial differences between the two processes. (Stony Brook University)