• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.73-79
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• 2014

Alveolar fricative sounds /s/ and /s'/ are learned last for normal children in the speech development process for Koreans. These are especially difficult to articulate for hearing-impaired children often causing articulation errors. The acoustic phonetic evaluation uses testing tools to provide indirect and object information. These objective resources can be compared with standardized resources on speech when interpreting the results of a test. However, most previous studies in Korea did not consider acoustic studies that used the spectrum moment values of hearing-impaired children. Therefore, this study was conducted to compare the characteristics of hearing-impaired children's pronunciation of fricative sounds using spectrum moment values. For this purpose, the study selected a total of 10 hearing-impaired children (5 boys and 5 girls) currently in 3rd or 5th grade and attending one of the elementary schools in Seoul or Gyeonggi-do. For the selection process, their age, type of hearing aid, implantation of hearing aid (CI) before two years of age, hearing capacity (dB) before and after wearing the hearing aid, duration of speech rehabilitation, and time of learning alveolar fricative sounds were all considered. Also, 10 normal children (5 boys and 5 girls) were selected among 3rd or 5th grade students attending one of the elementary schools in Seoul or Gyeonggi-do. The subjects were asked to read the carrier sentence, "I say _______," including a list of 12 meaningless syllables composed of CV and VCV syllables, including alveolar fricative sounds /s/ and /s'/ and vowels /a/, /i/, and /u/. The recorded resources were processed through the Time-frequency Analysis Software Program to measure M1 (mean), M2 (variance), M3 (skewness), and M4 (kurtosis) of the fricative noise. No significant differences were found when comparing spectrum threshold values in the acoustic phonetic characteristics of hearing-impaired children and normal children in alveolar fricative sound pronunciation according to vowels /a/, /i/, and /u/, alveolar fricative sounds /s/ and /s'/, and syllable structure (CV, VCV) other than, for M3 in the comparison of groups according to disability. In the comparison of syllable structures, there were statistically significant differences in M1, M2, M3, and M4 with clinical significance. However, there was no significant difference in results when comparing the alveolar fricative sounds according to the vowels.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.129-136
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• 2012

Korean alveolar fricatives are late-developing speech sounds. Most previous research on phonemes used individual words or pseudo words to produce sounds, but word-level phonological analysis does not always reflect a child's practical articulation ability. Also, there has been limited research on articulation development looking at speech production by grammatical morphemes despite its importance in Korean language. Therefore, this research examines the articulation development and phonological patterns of the /s/ phoneme in terms of morphological types produced in children's spontaneous conversational speech. The subjects were twenty-two typically developing 3- and 4-year-old Koreans. All children showed normal levels in three screening tests: hearing, vocabulary, and articulation. Spontaneous conversational samples were recorded at the children's homes. The results are as follows. The error rates decreased with increasing age in all morphological contexts. Also, error percentages within an age group were significantly lower in lexical morphemes than in grammatical morphemes. The stopping of fricative sounds was the main error pattern in all morphological contexts and reduced as age increased. This research shows that articulation performance can differ significantly by morphological contexts. The present study provides data that can be used to identify the difficult context for articulatory evaluation and therapy of alveolar fricative sounds.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.37-46
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• 2010

This study investigates acoustic characteristics of English and Korean voiceless sibilant fricatives as they appear before the three vowels, /i/, /$\alpha$/ and /u/. Three measurements - duration, center of gravity and major spectral peak - are employed to compare acoustic properties and vowel effect for each fricative sound. This study also investigates the question of whether Korean sibilant fricatives are acoustically similar to the English voiceless alveolar fricative /s/ or to the palato-alveolar /$\int$/. The results show that in the duration of frication noise, English /$\int$/ is the longest and Korean lax /s/ the shortest of the four sounds. It is also observed that English alveolar /s/ has the highest value, whereas Korean /s/ shows the lowest value in the frequency of center of gravity. In terms of major spectral peak, while English /s/ reveals the highest frequency, English /$\int$/ shows the lowest value. In addition, evidence indicates that there is a strong vowel effect in the fricative sounds of both languages, although the vowel effect patterns of the two languages are inconsistent. For instance, in the major spectral peak, both Korean lax /s/ and tense /$s^*$/ show significantly higher frequencies before the vowel /$\alpha$/ than before the other vowels, whereas both English /s/ and /$\int$/ exhibit significantly higher frequencies before the vowel /i/ than before the other vowels. These results indicate that Korean sibilant fricatives are acoustically distinct from both English /s/ and /$\int$/.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2024

본 연구는 치조 마찰음의 왜곡 오류인 치간음화, 구개음화, 설측음화가 적률분석의 변인인 무게중심, 분산, 왜도, 첨도에서 정조음과 보이는 음향학적 차이를 확인하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 61명 아동(평균연령: 5.6±1.5세, 여아 19명, 남아 42명)을 대상으로 얻어진 조음음운평가(Assessment of Phonology & Articulation for Children, APAC; Urimal-test of Articulation and Phonology I, U-TAP I) 결과, 음성 중 치조 마찰음을 포함하고 있는 목표 단어에서 치조마찰음 왜곡 오류를 보인 음성과 정조음 음성을 추출하여 후향적 연구를 진행하였다. 총 169개의 음성이 적률분석에 사용되었다. 그 결과, 무게중심에서 정조음이 구개음화보다 값이 높았으며, 구개음화는 치간음화보다 값이 낮았다. 치간음화의 분산이 정조음과 구개음화보다 높았다. 치간음화가 정조음보다 높은 왜도를 보였으며 구개음화의 왜도가 정조음보다 높았다. 마지막으로 구개음화의 첨도가 정조음과 치간음화보다 높았다. 각 왜곡 오류 유형에서 적률분석의 모든 변인들에 대해 조음위치(어두초성, 어중초성), 발성유형(평음, 경음)에 따른 유의한 차이는 관찰되지 않았다. 본 연구는 치조 마찰음의 유형에 따라 무게중심, 분산, 왜도, 첨도에서 다른 패턴이 나타남을 확인하였으며, 본 연구에서 제시한 객관적 수치는 추후 임상에서 청지각 평가를 도와 치조 마찰음 왜곡 오류의 진단과정에 기초 자료로 사용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.319-329
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 브로카 실어증 환자에 대한 멜로디 억양 치료(Melodic Intonation Therapy, MIT)에서 호흡훈련이 조음 명료도를 개선하는지를 평가했다. 실험군은 MIT에 선행하는 2단계 호흡 훈련을 받도록 했다. 중재 효과를 평가하기 위해, 피실험자의 폐쇄음의 폐쇄 길이(VOT), 단어 전체의 발화 길이(TD), 음성 강도 및 호기량을 중재 전과 후에 측정하여 비교 했다. 실험 결과 폐쇄음의 폐쇄 길이 및 단어 전체의 발화 길이는 양순음/p/, 치조음/t/, 연구개음/k/에서 증가했으나(p < 0.05) 파찰음/c/와 마찰음/s/은 변화가 없는 것으로 나타났다(p > 0.05). 반면 대조군에서는 폐쇄음의 폐쇄 길이 및 단어 전체의 발화 길이가 증가하지 않는 것으로 나타났다(p > 0.05). 조음 명료도에 영향을 주는 호기량과 음성 강도는 실험군에서 증가했으나(p < 0.01) 대조군에서는 유의한 변화가 없었다. 결론적으로, 브로카 실어증 환자의 MIT에서 호흡 훈련은 환자의 조음 명료도를 개선하고 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 대한치과보철학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.77-102
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• 1994

Many studies have been made on the masticatory and esthetic effects of prosthodontic treatments, but few on the restoration of pronunciation, especially in complete denture wearers. The purpose of this study is to provide a basis that could be of help to the complete denture wearers' speech adaptation by analyzing the influence of the palatal coverage upon the duration of consonants and vowels with the method of experimental phonetics. For this study, metal plates and resin plates were made for 3 male subjects in their twenties, who have good occlusion, and do not have speech and hearing disorders. Then 8 Korean consonants and 4 Korean vowels were selected, systemically considering phonetic variants such as the place and manner of articulation, lenis/fortis, mutual effect of each phoneme, etc. They were combined into meaningless tested words in the form of /VCV/, and were included in the carrier sentences. Each informant uttered the sentences 1) without the plate, 2) with the metal plate, 3) with the resin plate. The recorded data were analyzed through the waveform of sounds and spectrogram by using the program SoundEdit, Signalize, Statview 512+for the Macintosh computer. The duration of each segment was measured by searching for the boundaries between the preceding vowels and consonants, and between the consonants and the following vowels. The study led to the conclusion that. 1. With the palatal plate, the duration of all the tested words increased and the duration increased more with the resin plate than with the metal plate. 2. With the palatal plate, the duration of all the preceding vowels, consonants, and following vowels increased, but the temporal structure of the tested words was maintained. 3. As for the manner of articulation, fricative /s/(ㅅ) was greatly influenced by both kinds of palatal plates. 4. As for the place of articulation, alveolar sounds /d/(ㄷ), /n/(ㄴ) were greatly influnced by the kinds of palatal plates, and the velar sounds /n/(ㅇ), /g/(ㄱ) were influenced by the platal plates, but the kind of the palatal plates did not show any significance. 5. As for the lenis/fortis, lenis was influenced more by the kind of the palatal plates. 6. As for the influence of vowels upon each segment in the tested words, palatal vowel /i/(ㅣ) had greater influence than pharyngeal vowel /a/(ㅏ), and following vowels than preceding vowels.