• 한국영어학회지:영어학
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.83-102
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• 2004

The purpose of this paper is to find out some major characteristics of intermediate-advanced Korean learners' English by corpus- linguistically analyzing their essays in comparison with native speakers'. We construct a corpus of CBT TOEFL essays by Korean learners, NNS1 (94076 words in 402 texts), and its sub-corpus, NNS2 (14291 words in 45 texts), and then a corpus of model essays written or meticulously edited by native speakers, NS (14833 words in 35 texts). We compare NNS1 and NNS2 with NS, and with some other corpora, in terms of high-frequency words, and show that Korean learners' writings have more features of informal writing than those of formal writing, which is in accord with the reports in Granger (1998) that EFL writings by European advanced learners are characterized by informality.

• 한국컴퓨터산업학회논문지
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• 제5권7호
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• pp.747-754
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 114 안내시스템에 저장되어있는 서로 중복되어 있지 않는 1,566,943개의 상호명 코퍼스에서 이 코퍼스의 특징을 가장 잘 표현 해 줄 수 있는 최적 코퍼스를 설계하였다. 최적 코퍼스를 구하기 위해 두 단계의 방식을 택한다. 일 단계는 기본코퍼스에 존재하는 트라이폰이 모두 나타내는 최소의 단어 셋을 구하는 최적 음소균형 코퍼스 셋이고 다음 단계는 기본코퍼스에 존재하는 트라이폰의 빈번도를 고려하는 최소의 단어 셋을 구하는 음소 분포코퍼스 셋을 설계하였다. 실험 결과 최적 음소 균형 셋으로 8,699단어가 선정되었으며 최적 음소 분포 균형 셋으로 16,783 단어가 선정되었다. 이러한 최적 코퍼스는 음성 및 합성 시스템을 위한 음성데이터베이스를 구축 할 때 이용된다.

• 인지과학
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.123-140
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• 2005

이 논문은 한국어 교육에서 문형 전자 사전을 바탕으로 하는 자동문형 검사기를 설계하기 위해 문형의 출현 빈도와 사용 빈도 조사를 목적으로 하였다. 먼저 한국어 교육에서의 문형의 개념을 정의하고 그 유형을 구문 문형과 표현 문형으로 나누어 분류하였다. 서술어 중심의 구문 문형과 의존명사, 어미, 조사가 중심인 표현 문형이 학습자 코퍼스에서 어떻게 나타나는지 분석하였다. 학습자 코퍼스는 학습자들이 꼭 배워야 하는 것으로 표준 코퍼스와 학습자들의 생산물인 오류 코퍼스로 나누어 구축하였다. 한국어 교재로 구성된 표준 코퍼스에서의 문형 출현 빈도와 학습자들이 직접 작성한 글을 모은 오류 코퍼스에서 어떻게 문형이 사용되고 있는지 사용 빈도를 조사하였다. 학습자들의 문형 사용 빈도순은 문형 전자 사전에 기술되고, 이것은 문형 검색 속도를 최적화할 것이다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2012

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the voice onset time (VOT) of the English voiceless stops [p, t, k] found in the Buckeye Corpus of Conversational Speech [1]. Three young female speakers were chosen for this study and their VOT values were semi-automatically extracted along with other factors. The factors used for the analysis were place of articulation, location in word, syllabic stress, content word or not, word frequency calculated from the corpus, and the speech rate expressed in syllables per second. Results showed that, for the three places of articulation of each speaker, all the factors had a statistically significant effect on the VOT values. This paper has significance in that the materials used for the analysis were from a corpus of spontaneous natural English speech.

• 아시아태평양코퍼스연구
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.43-59
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• 2023

This study aims to compare the structures of light verb constructions (LVCs) taking decision as the deverbal noun in Malaysian English, British English and American English. A general corpus made up of Internet forum threads from Lowyat.Net, was created to represent Malaysian English while the British National Corpus (BNC) and Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) were used to represent the supervarieties. Light verbs make and take are found to be heading deverbal noun decision. Differences are observed in the use of articles. The frequency of Malaysian English LVCs without article is the highest while supervarieties LVCs prefer indefinite article. The high occurrences of LVCs without articles in Malaysian English can be attributed to the influence from Malaysian substrate languages. Findings also show that descriptive adjective is the most frequently used modifier in all three varieties of English. This suggests the standard LVC structure, comprising a light verb, the indefinite article, and a deverbal noun is no longer rigidly adhered to even among the native speakers of English.

• 아시아태평양코퍼스연구
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.31-60
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• 2020

This paper investigates changes in relativization in Singapore English broadsheet newspapers from 1993 to 2016. One of the first diachronic studies in Singapore English (SgE), it also explores corresponding data from the diachronic Siena-Bologna (SiBol) news corpus. As SgE is in the endonormative stabilization phase in Schneider's (2007) Dynamic Model of postcolonial Englishes, divergence from British English (BrE) is to be expected. In this study, the dataset is a new Singapore English Newspaper (SEN) corpus compiled from local news articles in 1993, 2005 and 2016, and the corpus tool employed is Sketch Engine. The results reveal changes in relativization practices in SEN over the given period, many of which occur in a similar pattern as those identified in SiBol, albeit at varying rates of change. Most significant of these include a sharp decline in the which relativizer in restrictive relative clauses with non-animate antecedents, complemented by a rise in that. The change has been so rapid that although which relative clauses were more common than that clauses in 1993, that has subsequently overtaken which for both the corpora. One shift in SEN that is different from SiBol is the increase in frequency of non-restrictive relative clauses in SgE. The likely motivators for the changes in the two varieties are identified as colloquialization, densification and prescriptivism. The effect each of these factors could have had on the varieties are discussed, as well as the implications that the findings have on our understanding of the evolutionary status of SgE as a postcolonial variety.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.33-42
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• 2020

본 논문은 구어 말뭉치를 기반으로 한국어 /ㅗ/가 /ㅜ/로 고모음화되는 현상(예, '별로' [별루])에 대해 문법 항목별로 차이를 살펴보는 데 연구 목적이 있다. 한국어의 /ㅗ/와 /ㅜ/는 [+원순성] 자질을 공유하지만, 혀 높이 차이로 변별된다. 그러나 최근 /ㅗ/와 /ㅜ/의 두 모음의 음성적 구분이 모호해지는 병합 현상이 진행 중이라고 여러 논문에서 보고되었다. 본 연구에서는 어말 위치의 /ㅗ/가 한국어 자연언어 구어 말뭉치(The Korean Corpus of Spontaneous Speech)에서 음성적으로 [o] 또는 [u]로 실현되는 현상을 연결어미, 조사, 부사, 체언의 문법 항목별로 출현빈도 및 출현비율에 대해 살펴보았다. 실험 결과 연결어미, 조사, 부사에서 /ㅗ/는 약 50%의 비율로 /ㅜ/로 대체되는 것을 확인했고, 체언에서만 상당히 낮은 비율인 5% 미만으로 대체가 되는 것을 알 수 있었다. 고빈도 형태소 중에서 가장 높은 /ㅜ/ 대체율을 보인 형태소는 '-도 [두]' (59.6%)였고, 연결어미에서는 '-고 [구]' (43.5%)로 나타났다. 구어 말뭉치를 통하여 실제 발음형과 표준발음의 차이를 살펴보았다는 데 연구 의의가 있다.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.433-442
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to reveal the Korean learners' usage pattern of '의', the genitive particle, according to semantic classification, so that it can be referred to in determining the contents and methods of related education. The method of this study adopts a quantitative analysis using learners corpus established by National Institute of Korean Language. As a result of the analysis, as proficiency increases, the overall frequency of '의' increases and the number of meaning senses used increases. However, the frequency of errors also increases with it. As for the usage pattern of each sense, the meaning of 'ownership, belonging' is the most frequent, and followed by 'acting entity', 'kinship, social relations', and 'relationship(area)'. In conclusion, the meanings of 'acting subjects' and 'relationships(area) need to be supplemented with explicit education. Other meanings need to be discussed, and decisions should be made in consideration of learning purpose and proficiency.

• 영어영문학
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• 제55권3호
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• pp.475-495
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• 2009

In this paper, I discuss some asymmetries of bracketing paradoxes from a corpus-based perspective. Through a critical examination of previous analyses of bracketing paradoxes, it is demonstrated that the cases of apparent asymmetries of bracketing paradoxes are consistently accounted for when combined with the frequency-based parsability in morphological processing. Based on the relative frequency, this paper argues that bracketing paradoxes are well-atttested when their immediate bases are frequent and productive enough to be accessed as a unit and stored as such in memory. This is an extension of Hay 2002 which conducted a comprehensive survey of differential frequency effects in suffix pairs. A frequency-based approach to bracketing paradoxes adopted in this paper can be a challenge to the conventional formal theory by assuming a major role of language use and have the potential to significantly advance our understanding of the asymmetries observed in the real language world.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.25-31
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• 2018

This paper investigated the phonological processes of monophthongs and diphthongs in the pronounced words present in the Buckeye Corpus and compared the frequency distribution of these processes by sex and age groups to provide a clearer understanding of spoken English to linguists and phoneticians. Both orthographic and pronounced words were extracted from the transcribed label scripts of the Buckeye Corpus using R. Next, the phonological processes of monophthongs and diphthongs in the orthographic and pronounced labels were tabulated using R scripts, and a frequency distribution by vowel process types, as well as sex and age groups, was created. The results revealed that 95% of the orthographic words contained the same number of syllables, whereas 5% had different numbers of vowels, thereby proving that speakers tend to preserve vowels in spontaneous speech. In addition, deletion processes were preferred in natural speech. Most vowel deletions occurred with an unstressed syllable. Chi-square tests were performed to calculate dependence in the distribution of phonological process types for male and female groups and young and old groups. The results showed a very strong correlation. This finding indicates that vowel processes occurred in approximately the same pattern in natural and spontaneous speech data regardless of sex and age, as well as whether or not the vowel processes were identical. Based on these results, the author concludes that an analysis of phonological processes in spontaneous speech corpora can greatly enhance practical understanding of spoken English.