Phonetics and Speech Sciences (말소리와 음성과학)
- Volume 3 Issue 4
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- Pages.71-81
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- 2011
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- 2005-8063(pISSN)
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- 2586-5854(eISSN)
The Effect of Prosodic Position and Word Type on the Production of Korean Plosives
Abstract
This paper investigated how prosodic position and word type affect the phonetic structure of Korean coronal stops. Initial segments of prosodic domains were known to be more strongly articulated and longer relative to prosodic domain-medial segments. However, there are few studies examining whether the properties of prosodic domain-initial segments are affected by the information content of words (real vs. nonsense words). In addition, since the scope of domain-initial effect was known to be local to the initial consonant and the effects on the following vowel have been found to be limited, it is thus worth examining whether the prosodic domain-initial effect extends into the vowel after the initial consonant in a systematic way across different prosodic domains. The acoustic properties of Korean coronal stops (lenis /t/, aspirated /