• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.369-372
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• 1999

본 연구는 제주방언의 억양 패턴에 대하여 실험음성학적 분석을 하였다. 이전의 제주방언에 대한 음성 음운론적 연구는 거의 분절음 연구에 국한되었다. 억양 패턴 분석은 K-ToBI 레이블링 시스템에서 사용하는 성조기호를 사용하여 수행되었다 제주 방언의 운율구는 서울말, 전남방언과 같이 억양구와, 그 하위 층에 악센트구 두 개로 이루어져 있다. 본 연구는 크게 억양구의 경계성조 유형 연구와 악센트구의 성조 연구를 수행하였다. 억양구 경계성조로는 서울말과 같이 $L\%,\;H\%$를 기본으로 하여 $HL\%,\;LHL\%,\;HLHL\%,\;LHLHL\%,\;LH\%,\;HLH\%,\;LHLH\%,\;HLTLH\%$ 등의 유형과 그 외 제주방언만의 유형 또한 관찰되었다. 악센트구의 성조패턴 연구는 음절수와 억양구내 악센트구의 위치를 변수로 하여 살펴보았다. 제주방언의 악센트구 기본 성조는 'LH'로서 마지막 음절에서 ?'가 실현되는 패턴이다. 음절수가 많아지면 마지막 둘째음절에 아주 완만한 피치상승을 보이긴 하나 'H'로 기술하기에는 부적절하였다 유성음화의 범위는 서울방언에서와 같이 악센트구로 나타났다. 강자음이 악센트구 초에 올 때 ?'성조로 시작이 되었으며 피험자에 따라 'H'성조가 첫째음절에서만 실현되고 바로 하강하던가 또는 둘째음절까지 지속되는 것이 관찰되었다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.283-290
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• 2014

Recently, As the prevalence of precocious is increased in Korea This study was evaluated the physical growth and female sex hormone characteristics of girls with Idiopathic precocious puberty. Retrospective analysis about the medical record of 113 girls for evaluation of signs of precocious puberty except for organic causes was done. Physical growth features and Female sexual hormone were analyzed. Height SDS and Weight SDS were significantly increased in true sexual precocity compared to pseudo sexual precocity. Hormone studies showed that the level of basal LH, FSH, E2 was significantly higher in true precocious puberty. The finding of this study suggest that we need to develop intervention about physical and psychological problems for precocious puberty girls.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.11-17
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• 2020

Non-tonal language speakers may have difficulty learning second language lexical tones. In the present study, we explored this issue with Korean-speaking learners of Mandarin Chinese (i.e., non-tonal first language speakers) by examining their perception and production of Mandarin lexical tones. In the perception experiment, the Korean learners were asked to listen to the tone of each stimulus and assign it to one of four Mandarin lexical tones using the response keys; in the production experiment, the learners provided speech production data for the lexical tones and then their productions were identified by native listeners of Mandarin Chinese. Our results showed that the Korean learners of Mandarin Chinese had difficulty in perceptually distinguishing Tone 2 and Tone 3, with the most frequent production error being the mispronunciation of Tone 3 as Tone 2. We also investigated whether unfamiliar non-native phonemes (i.e., Chinese phonemes) that do not exist in the native language phonemic inventory (i.e., Korean) may hinder the processing of the non-native lexical tones. We found no evidence for such effects, neither for the perception nor for the production of the tones.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.1-10
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• 2022

The Korean polysemic ending '-(eu)lgeol' can has two different meanings, 'guess' and 'regret'. These are expressed by different boundary-tone types: a rising tone for guess, a falling one for regret. Therefore the sentence-final boundary-tone type is the most salient prosodic feature. However, besides tone type, the pitch difference between the final and penultimate syllables of '-(eu)lgeol' can also affect semantic discrimination. To investigate this aspect, we conducted a perception test using two sentences that were morphologically and syntactically identical. These two sentences were spoken using different boundary-tone types by a Korean native speaker. From these two sentences, the experimental stimuli were generated by artificially raising or lowering the pitch of the boundary syllable by 1Qt while fixing the pitch of the penultimate syllable and boundary-tone type. Thirty Korean native speakers participated in three levels of perceptual test, in which they were asked to mark whether the experimental sentences they listened to were perceived as guess or regret. The results revealed that regardless of boundary-tone types, the larger the pitch difference between the final and penultimate syllable in the positive direction, the more likely it is perceived as guess, and the smaller the pitch difference in the negative direction, the more likely it is perceived as regret.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.84-88
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• 1999

The accurate estimation of segmental duration is crucial for natural-sounding text-to-speech synthesis. For predicting Korean segmental durations, conventional methods utilized phonemic context, part-of-speech context and locational information in prosodic phrase. In this paper, the tonal information of phonemes is employed for more accurate prediction. After defining two non-boundary tones and six boundary tones, we annotated the tonal label on each syllable of 400 sentences. To predict segmental duration using tonal information, we constructed neural networks with a real-valued output node predicting phonemic duration and trained them by backpropagation algorithm. Experimental results showed that the proposed features are effective for predicting Korean segmental durations, and we got 0.863 correlation coefficient of the observed durations and predicted ones.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.129-137
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• 2006

A study was conducted to investigate the behavior of pollutant forms at each area in the sewage treatment plant by natural purification method. The sewage treatment plant by natural purification method that consisted of aerobic and anaerobic area was constructed. The efficiency of sewage treatment depending on the operation time, the loading amount of pollutant season variation were investigated. The removal amount of BOD, COD, TOC and SS in the aerobic area was significantly increased as the treatment proceeded. Decreased BOD, COD, TOC, SS, T-N and T-P depending on the loading amount of pollutants in the aerobic and ananerobic area were mostly insoluble BOD (IBOD), insoluble COD (ICOD), soluble TOC (STOC), volatile SS (VSS), dissolved T-N (DTN) and dissolved T-N (DTP) types, respectively. The removal efficiency of BOD, COD, TOC, SS, T-N and T-P in hot season (summer and autumn) were more than that in cold season (spring and winter). The removal efficiencies of BOD, COD, TOC, SS, T-N and T-P of the effluent were about 92, 89, 73, 95, 46 and 84% in all seasons, respectively.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.26-35
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• 2003

An investigation was carried out to evaluate the effects of pebble size on the small-scale sewage treatment apparatus by natural purification method that consisted of aerobic and anaerobic plot. pH and EC in both plots varied minimally regardless of pebble size. DO in aerobic plot increased as the pebble size decreased. That in the anaerobic plot was slightly less in comparison with that of the aerobic plot but varied minimally, $2.4{\sim}5.1\;mg/L$ regardless of pebble size. Under all experimental conditions, removals of BOD, COD and turbidity in anaerobic plot were more than 98, 91 and 98, 98% respectively. Removals of T-N and T-P increased as pebble size decreased. Under all experimental conditions, removals of T-N and T-P in anaerobic plot were about $45{\sim}59$ and $480{\sim}96%$, respectively. Judging from the above results, it should be considered that the optimum pebble size and pebble permeability in both plot was $2{\sim}4$ and $0.1{\sim}4\;mm$, respectively.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.375-382
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• 2008

Bisphenol A (BPA) and di-2-ethyhexyl phthalate (DEHP) is the considerably hazardous materials, endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), which is accumulated to the human's fat and tissue. We studied the relationship between the concentrations of BPA and DEHP in the precocious puberty and the normal controls using GC/MSD. BPA concentrations of the precocious puberty are lower than that of normal controls. But DEHP concentrations of the precocious puberty are higher than that of normal controls. From these results, BPA is not related to the precocious puberty. Otherwise, DEHP is somewhat related to the precocious puberty and the concentrations of the precocious puberty are approximately 45% higher than that of normal controls.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.329-332
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• 2000

변수로서 악센트구 내 음절수, 첫째 음절과 둘째 음절의 음절 유형 (폐음절 대 개음절), 첫째 음절과 둘째 음절의 초성 자음의 유형 등을 고려하여 선택된 3음절 무의미 단어 35개와 4음절 무의미 단어 35개를 사용하여 4음절 이상으로 이루어진 서울말 악센트구의 성조에 대 하여 조사하였다. 이 실험의 발화에서는 1) 악센트구성조에 대하여 4음절과 5음절의 차이는 나타나지 않았다. 2) 음절 유형은 첫째 음절의 초성 자음이 보통음일 때는 유의한 영향을 미치지 않았으나, 센소리일 때는 둘째 음절의 유형이 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 드러났다 3) 악센트구 성조에 대하여 첫째 음절의 초성 자음의 유형이 중요한 역할을 하는 것으로 나타났다 첫째 음절의 초성 자음이 센소리일 때 악센트구 4개 성조 모두 보통음일 때에 비해 높게 나타났다. 4) 둘째 음절의 초성 자음의 유형도 자신의 성조에 유의한 영향을 끼치는 것으로 드러났으며 센 소리로 시작하는 경우에 다른 유형의 자음에 비하여 자신의 피치 값이 높은 것으로 나타났다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Cognitive Science Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.15-19
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• 2006

이 논문은 국어 간투사 '아'와 '어'의 운율 유형을 살펴보고, 그 운율 유형이 담화상의 기능과 어떤 연관을 갖는지 살펴보는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 간투사의 지속 시간은 후행 발화의 존재 여부에 따라 달라지면 '아'의 경우 '어'보다 뒤에 강세구가 더 많이 형성되는 양상을 보였다. '아'는 강세구 성조 LLa, LHa, 또는 경계 성조 L+L%, L+HL%로 나타났으며, '어'의 경우 경계 성조만 L+L%, L+HL%, HH%으로 나타났다. 두 간투사 모두 발화 상황이나 현재 상황에 대한 의외성이 클수록 발화 지속 시간이 짧고, 구 성조나 경계성조가 고조로 나타난다. 반대로 화자가 발화를 이해하는 정도가 깊고 이미 알고 있는 것을 다시 상기한다거나 오해를 해결했을 경우, 발화 지속 시간이 길어지고, 운율은 저조에서 수평조로 형성된다.