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To investigate how different are loanword phonology and learner speech, we analyze the
Korean speakers’ production of English words with a word‐final stop. We investigate whether
the phonological cause of vowel insertion in the loanwords (e.g., rib[u] vs. rip[=] ) would appear
in the phonetic measurements of the learner speech. In our experiment, we not only counted
the instances of vowel insertion, but also measured the duration of preceding vowels of a
word‐final voiced and voiceless consonant (e.g., r[i]b vs. r[i]p). When we compared the
production of 6 Korean learners with that of 6 English native speakers, the learner speech did
not reflect the insertion contrast of the loanwords, but the duration contrast of the native
speech. After instruction, the learner speech developed toward the native speech value in
terms of both insertion and duration. The result suggests that loanword phonology is different
from the learner speech in that the learner speech does not reflect its L1 phonology while
the loanword phonology does so. Additional finding is that the loanword phonology is constant, while learner speech is changing toward the target value.