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The purpose of this study is to provide a technical vocabulary list in English for academic purposes(EAP) by constructing and mining a specialized corpus of phonetics and phonology research articles. To this end, a Phonetics/Phonology Research Article Corpus(PPRAC), containing a million running words, was established from research articles on phonetics and phonology, published during the last five years, from 2013 to 2017. The word distribution analysis indicated that GSL accounted for 71.53%, and AWL covered 11.08% of the PPRAC, meaning that the coverage of the combined GSL and AWL word lists was approximately 82.61% of the tokens in the PPRAC. The type-token ratio, a well-known measure of textual lexical variation, in the PPRAC was 2.36 indicating a rather low lexical diversity. Moreover, extracted from the PPRAC, a total of 372 specialized words for the fields of phonetics-phonology were developed. The technical vocabulary list developed in this paper is expected to offer practical and tailored help in understanding and teaching English phonetics and phonology. (Jeonju University․Wonkwang University)