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Lee, Juhee, Koonhyuk Byun & Sang-Cheol Ahn. 2015. Loanword Adaptation of Russian Obstruents in Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 40-3, 491-510. This paper examines the loanword adaptation pattern of Russian obsturents in Korean. We observe the loan adaptation patterns of Russian in the Seonbong newspaper (published between 1922 and 1937) in Yeonhaeju (Primorskij Kraj). Based on the collected data, we first provide an extensive analysis on the loan adaptation of Russian obstruents into Korean and show the general loan adaptation pattern. We then focus on the adaptation pattern of the Russian /v/ showing the

~~ alternation. To investigate the mysterious variation, we conduct a perception test with 24 real Russian words in various phonological environments. The experimental result indicates that the variation is sensitive to the syllable position. Moreover, it resolves earlier controversy on the nature of the Russian /v/ (Avanesov 1956, Hayes 1984, Padgett 2002), showing that the Russian /v/ is phonetically [+sonorant]. (Kyung Hee University, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, North-Eastern Federal University)