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See-Gyoon Park & Ji-Young Kim. 2016. A Study on the Perception of Korean Monophthongs by Arabic Learners of Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 41-3, 379-405. It is well known that L2 experience and L1 interference are the most important factors in L2 sound acquisition based upon the models of Flege (Speech Learning Model: SLM; Flege, 1987a, 1987b; Bohn & Flege, 1992) and Best (Perceptual Assimilation Model: PAM; Best, 1993, 1994, 1995; Best & Tyler, 2007). In our perceptual experiments on Korean monophthongs by Arabic learners of Korean, we examined influence of the two important factors of L2 experience and L1 interference posed by SLM and PAM. The results showed that the prediction based upon SLM and PAM was not completely correct but acceptable only in part. Why the two models were not totally acceptable should be investigated continuously. Our experiments results revealed, however, that some phonetic features such as lip rounding and the front-back position of the tongue, might have acted as the third important factor which could influence on the two existing factors. (Kunsan National University)