• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.101-113
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• 2010

The present study investigated how the kinematics of the /a/-to-/i/ tongue movement in Korean would be influenced by prosodic boundary. The /a/-to-/i/ sequence was used as 'transboundary' test materials which occurred across a prosodic boundary as in /ilnjəʃ$^h$a/ # / minsakwae/ ('일년차#민사과에' 'the first year worker' # 'dept. of civil affairs'). It also tested whether the V-to-V tongue movement would be further influenced by its syllable structure with /m/ which was placed either in the coda condition (/am#i/) or in the onset condition (/a#mi). Results of an EMA (Electromagnetic Articulagraphy) study showed that kinematical parameters such as the movement distance (displacement), the movement duration, and the movement velocity (speed) all varied as a function of the boundary strength, showing an articulatory strengthening pattern of a "larger, longer and faster" movement. Interestingly, however, the larger, longer and faster pattern associated with boundary marking in Korean has often been observed with stress (prominence) marking in English. It was proposed that language-specific prosodic systems induce different ways in which phonetics and prosody interact: Korean, as a language without lexical stress and pitch accent, has more degree of freedom to express prosodic strengthening, while languages such as English have constraints, so that some strengthening patterns are reserved for lexical stress. The V-to-V tongue movement was also found to be influenced by the intervening consonant /m/'s syllable affiliation, showing a more preboundary lengthening of the tongue movement when /m/ was part of the preboundary syllable (/am#i/). The results, together, show that the fine-grained phonetic details do not simply arise as low-level physical phenomena, but reflect higher-level linguistic structures, such as syllable and prosodic structures. It was also discussed how the boundary-induced kinematic patterns could be accounted for in terms of the task dynamic model and the theory of the prosodic gesture ($\pi$-gesture).

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.37-44
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• 2016

The goal of the current study is to investigate how the sound change is reflected in production or in perception, and what the effect of lexical frequency is on the loss of sound contrasts. Specifically, the current study examined whether the vowel length contrasts are retained in Korean speakers' productions, and whether Korean listeners can distinguish vowel length minimal pairs in their perception. Two production experiments and two perception experiments investigated this. For production tests, twelve Korean native speakers in their 20s and 40s completed a read-aloud task as well as a map-task. The results showed that, regardless of their age group, all Korean speakers produced vowel length contrasts with a small but significant differences in the read-aloud test. Interestingly, the difference between long and short vowels has disappeared in the map task, indicating that the speech mode affects producing vowel length contrasts. For perception tests, thirty-three Korean listeners completed a discrimination and a forced-choice identification test. The results showed that Korean listeners still have a perceptual sensitivity to distinguish lexical meaning of the vowel length minimal pair. We also found that the identification accuracy was affected by the word frequency, showing a higher identification accuracy in high- and mid- frequency words than low frequency words. Taken together, the current study demonstrated that the speech mode (read-aloud vs. spontaneous) affects the production of the sound undergoing a language change; and word frequency affects the sound change in speech perception.

• 인지과학
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.323-355
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• 2015

후기 한국어-영어 이중언어화자의 자소-음소 변환규칙(grapheme to phoneme conversion rule, GPC 규칙)에 따른 영어 규칙성 효과(regularity effect)가 단어수준과 하위단어수준에서 나타나는지 알아보기 위해 단어명명과제, 각운판단과제, 음소제거과제를 진행하였다. 전체 단어수준(whole word level)에서의 규칙 양상을 살펴보기 위해, [1] 영어단어명명과제(English word naming task)를 사용하였고, 단어 단위보다 하위 단계에서의 규칙성 효과를 알아보기 위해 [2] 라임판단 과제(rhyme judgement task)와 음소수준(phoneme level)에서의 과제인 [3] 음소탈락과제(phoneme deletion task)를 사용하였다. 실험 참가자들은 세 종류의 과제를 모두 수행하였고, 총 43명의 후기 이중언어화자가 실험에 참가하였다. 실험결과, 세 과제 모두에서 규칙성 효과가 나타나 한국어-영어 이중언어화자가 영어(L2) 단어 처리 시 GPC 규칙을 적극적으로 활용하고 있다는 사실을 확인하였다. 사후분석으로써 세 과제 사이의 상관분석을 진행한 결과, 단어명명과제와 라임판단과제 간 상관이 가장 높게 나타났다. 비록 영어 모국어 화자의 이전 연구결과와는 달리 라임판단과제와 단어읽기과제 간 상관이 높게 나타났지만, 이는 실험 참가자의 L2 능숙도가 모국어화자만큼 높지 않았기 때문인 것으로 보인다. 본 연구는 후기 한국어-영어 이중언어화자가 영어 GPC 규칙을 사용하여 영어단어읽기 처리를 하고 있음을 확인하였다.

• 인지과학
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.487-513
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• 1990

일본어의 단어인지과정에서 표기형태의 역할을 개관하였다. 인지심리학적 연구결과를 종합한 결과, 어휘근접과정에서 카나와 한자의 서로 다른 역할을 확인하였다. 이것은 일본어 난독증의 사례에서 관찰되는 한자와 카나의 선택적 장애와도 일치한다. 이러한 사실들을 설명하기 위하여 McClelland 와 Rumelhart(1981)의 상호작용활성화 모형을 개정한 JIA(Japanese I nteractive Activation)모형을 제안하였다. 이 제안에는 카나문자단원과 한자단원의 추가, 그리고 문자노드-단어노드 연결형태의 세분화가 포함되었다. 또한 JIA모형의 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 프로그램을 작성하여 실행하였다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.3-10
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• 2010

The present study aims to investigate neural activations according to the level of code switching in English proficient bilinguals and to find the relationship between the performance of language switching and proficiency level using ERPs (event-related potentials). First, when comparing high-proficient (HP) with low-proficient (LP) bilingual performance in a native language environment, the activation level of N2 was observed to be higher in the HP group than in the LP group, but only under two conditions: 1) the language switching (between-language) condition known as indexing attention of code switching and 2) the inhibition of current language for L1. Another effect of N400 can be shown in both groups only in the language non-switching (within-language) condition. This effect suggests that both groups completed the semantic acceptability task well in their native language environment without the burden of language switching, irrespective of high or low performance. The latencies of N400 are only about 100ms earlier in the HP group than in the LP group. This difference can be interpreted as facilitation of the given task. These results suggest that HP showed the differential activation in inhibitory system for L1 in switching condition of L1-to-L2 to be contrary to inactivation of inhibitory system for the LP group. Despite the absence of an N400 effect at the given task in both groups, differential latencies between the peaks were attributed to the differences of efficiency in semantic processing.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.107-116
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• 2015

The present experiment investigated the effect of word length on the length of f0 intervals for North Kyungsang children. In order to find out the lengths of the f0 intervals, the f0 values at the midpoints of vowels in words were measured. F0 estimates were computed as intervals consistent with the logarithmic scale corresponding to the number of syllables in the words. The results indicated that the mean f0 intervals in words of different lengths showed a significant difference for the HH in HH vs. HHL and the LH in LH vs. LLH for North Kyungsang children. Adult speakers from the North Kyungsang region significantly differed only within the HH in HH vs. HHL. Adult speakers made a noticeable contribution in this characteristic from the children. The result of the adult study was presented to confirm whether the children used a North Kyungsang dialect. With respect to individual speaker differences, the North Kyungsang children showed more or less consistent patterns in quantile-quantile plots for the HH vs. HHL, but for the HL vs. LHL and LH vs. LLH, there were more variations than for the HH vs. HHL. The individual speakers' variation was the largest for the HL vs. LHL and the smallest for HH vs. HHL. Considering these results, the effect of word length on f0 intervals tended to show pitch accent-type-specific characteristics in the process of prosodic acquisition.

• 인지과학
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• 제11권3_4호
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• pp.73-81
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• 2000

이 연구는 지식유형에 따른 표상 차이를 확인하기 위해서 범주지식과 각본지식의 위계성과 전형성에 대한 점화효과를 측정하였다. 실험 1에서는 상위개념을 점화단어로 제시하고 하위개념을 목표단어로 제시한 다움 목표단어의 어휘판단시간을 측정하였다. 그 결과, 범주지식은 전형단어가 비전형단어보다 반응시간이 빨랐지만, 각본지식은 두 조건간의 차이가 없었다. 실험 2에서는 하위개념을 점화단어로 제시하고 상위개념을 목표단어로 제시한 다음 목표단어의 어위판단시간을 측정하였다. 범주지식이 각본지식보다 반응시간이 빨랐으며, 두 지식 모두 전형성 효과는 관찰되지 않았다. 이러한 결과는 범주지식은 전형성에 따른 위계구조를 구성하지만 각본지식은 범주지식에 비해서 위계성과 전형성이 약회된 구조로 표상될 가능성을 시사하는 것이다.

• 한국정보과학회 언어공학연구회:학술대회논문집(한글 및 한국어 정보처리)
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• 한국정보과학회언어공학연구회 1995년도 제7회 한글 및 한국어 정보처리 학술대회
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• pp.244-252
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• 1995

본 연구는 한자를 이용하여 시각 정보 (Visual Information)와 음성 정보(Phonological Information)가 단어 재인과 단어 명명 과정에 어떻게 영향을 주는 지를 조사하기 위하여 실시되었다. 기존의 영어를 이용한 연구에서는 시각 정보와 음성 정보를 독립적으로 조작할 수 없었기에 두 요소가 단어 재인에 어떤 영향을 주는 지를 살피는데 어려움이 있었다. 그러나 한자단어를 이용하면 시각 정보와 음성 정보를 독립적으로 조작할 수 있기 때문에 영어 단어를 사용하는 것보다 유리하다. 본 실험에서는 한자 단어를 이용하여 점화 단어 (Prime Word)와 목표 단어(Target Word)간의 시간간격(SOA)을 100 ms, 200 ms, 750 ms, 그리고 2000 ms로 변화시키면서 시간이 흐름에 따라 시각적 유사성과 음성적 유사성에 의한 점화 효과(Priming Effect)가 어떻게 변화하는 지를 조사하였다. 이 실험 결과에 의하면, 100 ms 조건에서는 시각적 유사성에 의한 점화 효과만 있었다. 그러나, 200 ms, 750 ms, 2000 ms 조건들에서는 시각적 유사성뿐만 아니라 음성적 유사성에 의해서도 점화효과가 있었다. 이와 같은 실험 결과는 최초의 한자 단어의 어휘 접근 (Lexical Access)이 시각 정보에 의해 결정됨을 보여주고 있다.

• 한국영어학회지:영어학
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.329-372
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• 2002

Tobin (1993) argues that verbs can be classified according to the process/result distinction. He further claims that the grammatical development of the lexical verbs into auxiliary/aspectual verbs is motivated by the distinction. In this paper, first, I reconsider Tobin's (1993) claim in the viewpoint of the principle of persistence (Hopper 1991) or the source determination hypothesis (Bybee, Perkins, and Pagliuca 1994), which states that the meaning of the source construction determines the path of grammaticalization. I then classified tense/aspect/ modality markers according to Tobin's (1993) process/result distinction. Finally, I argue that Tobin's (1993) process/result distinction constrains the distribution of grammaticalized verbs among tense/aspect/modality markers not only in English and but also in Korean.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.167-192
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• 2007

This study investigates the effects of written vocabulary exercises on lexical knowledge. Korean university students learning English as a foreign language were randomly assigned to one of four conditions-Condition 1 (having students match word form with word meaning), Condition 2 (having students fill in the blank provided with a list of words), Condition 3 (having students write sentences with the target words), Condition 4 (having students do three practices with the same vocabulary exercise as the condition 1). Each type of exercises in Condition 1, 2, and 3 was designed to classify a different level of mental processing except Condition 4 with multiple encounters of the target words. Learners' vocabulary knowledge of this study was obtained using a format adopted from the Vocabulary Knowledge Scale (VKS) immediately and two weeks later. The findings indicated that: (1) Condition 4 having students do three matching vocabulary exercises was as effective as the condition 3 (one writing exercise) on the immediate learning of word; (2) although there was no significant difference of the effect of vocabulary exercises between Condition 3 and 4, Condition 4 asking students to do three matching vocabulary exercises was the most effective way of vocabulary retention after two weeks.