말소리와 음성과학 (Phonetics and Speech Sciences)

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  • Pages.9-18
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  • 2025
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  • 2005-8063(pISSN)
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  • 2586-5854(eISSN)
한국음성학회 (Korean Society of Speech Sciences)
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Navigating dialectal boundaries: How speech context and interlocutor shape North Korean refugees' vowel production

  • Jungah Lee (Linguistics Convergence Institute, Chosun University)
  • 투고 : 2025.03.18
  • 심사 : 2025.05.03
  • 발행 : 2025.06.30
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This study examines how speakers of Pyongyang North Korean Standard (NK), who have resettled in South Korea, adjust their vowel production across different speech contexts, i.e., read speech, conversation with a fellow NK interlocutor, and conversation with a Seoul South Korean Standard (SK) interlocutor. Results show interlocutor-dependent vowel shifts among NK speakers. Whereas vowel production remained relatively stable in read speech and NK-NK interactions, NK speakers exhibited clear adaptive phonetic modifications during conversations with SK interlocutors. Specifically, they raised their tongue positions for vowels [i], [ɯ], [o], and [u], fronted front vowels ([i], [e], [æ]), and backed back vowels ([ʌ], [o], [u]). These findings suggest that NK speakers strategically adjust their vowel articulation to enhance intelligibility and minimize the perceptual salience of their NK accent, thus highlighting how vowel production is influenced by audience design and determined by social and communicative factors.

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과제정보

I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Prof. Kaori Idemaru and Prof. Charlotte Vaughn, whose insightful guidance and support during my doctoral studies laid the foundation for this research. I am also deeply thankful to the North Korean refugees who participated in this study-especially those who kindly agreed to be interviewed multiple times and even took on the role of interviewers themselves. Their openness and generosity made this research possible. I also wish to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback, which helped improve the quality of this manuscript.

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