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Korean stop pronunciation and current sound change: Focused on VOT and f0 in different pronunciation types

한국어 폐쇄음 발음과 최근의 발음 변이: 발화 형태별 VOT와 f0를 중심으로

  • 김지은 (가톨릭관동대학교 영어교육과)
  • Received : 2017.07.31
  • Accepted : 2017.09.09
  • Published : 2017.09.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine how speakers use VOT and f0 to distinguish tense, lax, and aspirated stops in isolated sentence reading and paragraph readings. To do so, a total of 20 males between the ages of 20-25 years old were asked to read (1) isolated sentences, (2) information-oriented text and (3) emotional expressive texts in which the stop pronunciation's VOT value and f0 were measured thereafter. The main results are as follows. In the isolate sentence reading, lax stops, and aspirated stops were distinguished by both VOT and f0, but for the Korean men that read reading texts, VOT is not a cue to distinguish between lax and aspirated stops. In general, the VOT differences between lax stops and aspirated stops were smaller for information-oriented texts and emotional expressive texts than that of the isolate sentence reading. In the paragraph reading that induces a natural utterance, the f0 dependence is greater for the distinction between lax and aspirated stops.

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