교차 언어 몬더그린의 음운론적 분석과 영어 교육에의 시사점

This paper offers a phonological account of cross-language mondegreens, focusing on how native speakers of Korean misperceive English song lyrics. Mondegreens—misperceptions of words or phrases—can arise across languages, and such cross-language cases resemble the adaptation of foreign sounds or words into the native phonological system. Based on an analysis of ten representative English–Korean mondegreens, this study shows that, among consonantal processes, substitution (including tensification, palatalization, and flapping) is the most frequent, followed by deletion and insertion, in which coda consonants play a more prominent role than onset ones. Regarding vowels, monophthongization of diphthongs is most common, while substitutions between low and mid vowels occur frequently and vowel insertion is rare. Beyond segmental alternations, suprasegmental processes such as resyllabification are also frequently observed. These findings not only shed light on the phonological mechanisms underlying cross-language mondegreens but also suggest pedagogical implications for English pronunciation instruction for Korean learners.