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Acoustic analysis of Korean affricates produced by dysarthric speakers with cerebral palsy

뇌성마비 마비말장애 성인의 파찰음 실현 양상 분석

  • Mun, Jihyun (Department of Linguistics, Seoul Nationa University) ;
  • Kim, Sunhee (Department of French Language Education, Seoul National University) ;
  • Chung, Minhwa (Department of Linguistics, Seoul Nationa University)
  • Received : 2021.05.31
  • Accepted : 2021.06.12
  • Published : 2021.06.30
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Abstract

This study aims to analyze the acoustic characteristics of Korean affricates produced by dysarthric speakers with cerebral palsy. Korean fricatives and affricates are the consonants that are prone to errors in dysarthric speech, but previous studies have focused only on fricatives. For this study, three affricates /tɕ, tɕh, ͈tɕ/ appearing at word initial and intervocalic positions produced by six mild-moderate male speakers of spastic dysarthria are selected from a QOLT database constructed in 2014. The parameters representing the acoustic characteristics of Korean affricates were extracted by using Praat: frication duration, closure duration, center of gravity, variance, skewness, kurtosis, and central moment. The results are as follows: 1) frication duration of the intervocalic affricates produced by dysarthric speakers was significantly longer than that of the non-disordered speakers; 2) the closure duration of dysarthric speakers was significantly longer; 3) in the case of the center of gravity, there was no significant difference between the two groups; 4) the skewness of the dysarthric speakers was significantly larger; and 5) the central moment of dysarthric speakers was significantly larger. This study investigated the characteristics of the affricates produced by dysarthric speakers and differences with non-disordered speakers.

본 연구는 경직형 경도-중등도 뇌성마비 마비말장애 성인이 산출한 한국어 파찰음의 음향학적인 특징을 분석한다. 한국어의 마찰음과 파찰음은 조음오류가 빈번하게 발생하는 자음인데, 기존 연구들은 마찰음에만 집중했다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 마비말장애 화자가 산출한 파찰음을 음향학적으로 분석하고자 한다. QoLT_SPEECH_2014 데이터베이스 내에서 파찰음 /tɕ, tɕh, ͈tɕ/이 어두 초성 및 어중 초성에 위치하는 단어를 선정하여 경도-중등도 경직형 장애 남성 화자 6명과 비장애 남성 화자 5명의 발화 데이터를 분석에 사용하였다. 한국어의 파찰음의 특성을 고려하여 파찰음의 음향학적 특징을 나타내는 매개변수를 선정하여 분석을 시행하였다: 마찰구간의 길이, 묵음 구간의 길이, 무게중심, 분산, 왜도, 첨도, 중심적률. 분석 결과는 다음과 같다: 1) 어중 초성 파찰음에서 마비말장애인이 유의하게 긴 마찰구간의 길이를 보였다, 2) 마비말장애인이 유의하게 긴 묵음 구간의 길이를 보였다, 3) 무게중심의 경우 두 집단 간의 유의한 차이가 존재하지 않았다, 4) 마비말장애인이 유의하게 큰 왜도 값을 보였다, 5) 마비말장애인이 유의하게 큰 중심적률 값을 보였다. 본 연구는 마비말장애인이 산출한 파찰음의 특성을 분석하고, 비장애인이 산출한 파찰음과의 차이를 밝혔다.

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본 연구는 문화체육관광부 및 한국콘텐츠진흥원의 연구개발지원사업으로 수행되었음(과제번호: R2019080018).

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