In order to examine how Korean-speaking ELLs process a stress in a Korean word, twenty-five Korean real words were selected and split into 5 subcategories with respect to their syllable structures, the number of syllables, the placement of stress in a word (see Appendix A).
nouns are dominantly employed for Korean (L1) testing items to match comparability of English (L2) items in terms of their syllable structures and stress patterns.