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Jung, Wonchol & Shin, Seung-Hoon. “Korean Learners’ Perception and Production Patterns of English laterals in a complex onset and ambisyllabic position.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 39.4 (2013): 279-301. Perception and production of a segment in a foreign or second language has been one of the major issues in the fields of phonetics and phonology. Traditional analyses made so far, however, have exclusively focused on either perception or on production solely and seldom on the relationship between the two. Also, those studies have heavily dealt with individual segments in isolation, hardly touching on those appearing in an environment that a mother tongue does not allow. The aim of this paper is to explore patterns of lateral perception and production by Korean learners of English and to elucidate the relationship between perception and production in the process of lateral acquisition. To this end, we employed 1,320 production and 600 perception data from 30 Korean learners of English and three native speakers of English. The production data were divided into eight types depending on their phonological, phonetic, morphological and even spelling properties, and perception data by three different syllable structures. Based on the results, this research contends that the well-known factors such as proficiency and phonological/morphological environment play an important role in producing and perceiving English laterals. It also reveals the relationships between perception and production when Koreans learn English laterals in various environments and maintains that wrong production stems from wrong perception. (Yeungnam University)