Phonetics and Speech Sciences (말소리와 음성과학)

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A Study on the Production of the English Word Boundaries: A Comparative Analysis of Korean Speakers and English Speakers

영어 단어경계에 따른 발화 양상 연구: 한국인 화자와 영어 원어민 화자 비교 분석

  • Received : 2014.02.05
  • Accepted : 2014.03.21
  • Published : 2014.03.31
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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to find out how Korean speakers' speech production in English word boundaries differs from English speakers' and to account for what bring about such differences. Seeing two consecutive words as one single cluster, the English speakers generally pronounce them naturally by linking a word-final consonant of the first word with a word-initial vowel of the second word, while this is not the case with most of the Korean speakers; they read the two consecutive words individually. In consequence, phonological processes such as resyllabification and aspiration can be found in the English speakers' word-boundary production, while glottalization, and unreleased stops are rather common phonological process seen in the Korean speakers' word-boundary production. This may be accounted for by Korean speakers' L1 interference, depending on English proficiency.

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