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An, Young-ran. 2012. The Role of Lexical Frequency: A Case of Consonant Insertion in Reduplication. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 37-4, 885-905. Frequency has attracted attention in phonology with regard to whether it exerts influence on phonology and if so, how significantly it affects phonological processes. The reduplication in Korean in which a consonant is epenthesized in the reduplicant poses an interesting question of what consonant is inserted in what way. One of the probable factors is lexical frequency: whether the choice of consonants comes from the existing patterns in lexicon. The overall finding suggests that in general the speakers’ behavior in the experiment does not simply reflect the lexical statistics. Meanwhile, some correlations were found between the experiment responses and the corpus data, e.g. between the frequency of inserted consonants and that of word-initial consonants. (Korea Christian University)