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This study explores the acceptability of voice mismatch in Ellipsis focusing on VP-ellipsis and Sluicing in English in terms of discourse effects. VP-ellipsis and Sluicing differ in their tolerance for voice mismatch. VP-ellipsis allows mismatches in voice between the elided site and its antecedent while Sluicing doesn't. This paper focuses on the recognition of Korean L2 learners in terms of judging the acceptability of VP ellipsis and sluicing with matched and mismatched voice based on Kehler's(2000) discourse coherence relations. This acceptability experiment shows that Korean L2 learners do distinguish the interaction between the constructions and voices. However, Kehler's coherence analysis is not relevant to the acceptability of VP ellipsis and Sluicing in Korean L2 learners' experiments. As a result, it was observed that Korean L2 learners of English were affected more by syntactic effects than by discourse effects.