• 음성과학
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.165-173
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• 2002

Strong compression effects in a stressed vowel due to the addition of syllables have been adopted as evidence for stress-timing. In relation to this, Yun (2002) investigated the compression effects of number of syllables on Korean vowel. The results generally revealed that Korean had neither significant nor consistent anticipatory or backwards compression effects, especially when it came to the sentence level. This led us to claim that Korean would not be a stress-timed language. But the language investigated in the study was only Korean, and further cross-linguistic research was needed to confirm the claim. In this study, Yun's (2002) sentence level data are compared with Fowler's (1981) English data. The comparison reveals that Korean seems to be similar to English in the backwards compression effect, whereas the two languages are markedly different in the anticipatory compression effect. Thus, if English is a stress-timed language and the strong anticipatory compression effect is evidence in favour of stress-timing as is claimed, the present cross-linguistic study confirms Yun's (2002) suggestion-Korean is unlikely to be stress-timed. On the other hand, compression effects are revisited: the differences in vowel compression between English and Korean are discussed from the syntactic and phonological points of view.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.23-27
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• 2003

최근 연속 음성 인식에서의 성능 향상을 위해 음절을 인식 단위로 사용하고자 하는 노력들이 보고되고 있다. 그러나 음절의 경우 음소에 비해 학습성이 음소에 비해 좋지 않고, 모델의 수가 음소에 비해 매우 많으므로 음절 경계에서의 문맥 종속 모델링이 어렵다는 단점을 갖고 있다. 본 논문에서는 한국어에서의 음절의 학습성을 향상시키기 위한 방법과 음절경계에서의 음소 문맥 종속 음절 모델링을 제안한다. 제안된 방법을 단어 인식 실험에 적용한 결과, 기존의 음절 모델과 비교하여 평균 46.23%의 에러 감소율을 보였다 우측 음소 종속 음절 모델 (right phone dependent syllable model)의 경우 트라이폰(triphone) 모델에 비해 16.7%의 에러 감소율을 볼 수 있었다.

• 한국연초학회지
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.8-17
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to classify the tobacco names in the world, to investigate the regional distribution of the classified type, and to show origin of names according to the type. The names of tobacco used in this study was 50. The type of tobacco names was classified by the presence or absence of nasal sound(morn) on the first syllable, the Number of syllable, and the structure of consonants and vowels of tobacco names. Type I (Dambago) has the nasal sound on the first syllable. The proportion of Type I(Dambago) was 28%. And the rest(Type I~Type V ; 72%) has no nasal sound. Type II(Tabaco) has three syllables, and its proportion was 20%. Type III(Tabac) has the two syllables and the structure of T+vowels+B+vowels. And its proportion was 30%. Type IV(Tutun) has the two syllables and the structure of T+vowels+T+vowels. And its proportion was 12%. Type V(Duhan) has the two syllables and the structure of D+vowels+H(V)+vowels. And its proportion was 10%. The world's most widely distributed type was Type I(Dambago). regional distribution of the world's tobacco names were clustered by the type. 72% of Type I(Dambago) was distributed in Asia. The etymology of Type I(Dambago) was only 14% Tambaku and the other is not yet known. The etymology of Type I(Dambago) seems to be derived from the Haitian Tambaku(meaning a tobacco pipe). 88% of Type II(Tabaco) and III(Tabac) were distributed in Europe. The etymology of Type II(Tabaco) and Type III(Tabac) were 84% Spanish "Tabaco". 100% of Type IV(Tutun) and V(Duhan) were distributed in Europe. The etymology of Type IV(Tutun) and Type V(Duhan) were 100% Turkish tutun and duhan, respectively. This finding suggests that the etymology of Type I(Dambago) is certainly may be Haitian "Tambaku(meaning a tobacco pipe)".

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.5-14
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• 1994

이 논문은 오차역전달(error back-propagation) 알고리듬을 갖는 다층구조 퍼셉트런(Multi-Layered Perceptron)을 사용하여 우리말 단어음성을 화자종속으로 기계 인식하는 실험에 관한 연구 결과다. 대상단어는 시외 자동전화 지역번호표에서 임의로 선택한 50개 지역명이며, 이 중 43개는 2음절로 구성되어있고 나머지 7개는 3음절이다. 단어를 음소나 음절별로 분리(segmentation)하지 않고, 단어의 각 부분에서 골고루 추출된 특징성분을 신경망에 입력하는 방법을 사용했다. 그렇게 함으로써 발음지속시간에 관계없는 결과를 얻을 수 있으며, 이 때 사용된 특징 성분은 선형예측분석으로 구해진 PARCOR계수다. 전체학습과 구분학습의 비교, 프레임 갯수와 PARCOR차수에 대한 인식률의 의존도, 중간층 뉴런의 갯수에 대한 인식률의 변동, 그리고 출력층 뉴런의 구성 방법에 따른 비교 등 4가지 실험을 통하여 가장 최량의 조건을 찾아보고자 하였다. 이 연구를 발전시킨다면 실시간의 화자독립 소규모어휘 음성인식이 가능해질 것으로 보인다.

• 음성과학
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.159-168
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• 2003

The purpose of this study was to assess the speech rate, fluency and the type of dysfluencies of normal adults in order to provide a basic data of normal speaking. The number of subjects of this study were 30(14 females and 16 males), and their ages ranged 17 to 36. The rate was measured as syllables per minute (SPM). The speech rates in reading ranged 273-426 with a mean of 348 SPM and in speaking ranges 118-409 (mean=265). The average of their fluencies was 99.1% in reading and 96.9% in speaking. The rater reliability of speech rate in the data assessed by video was very high (r=0.98) and the rater reliability of speech fluency was moderately high (r=0.67). The disfluency types were also analysed from 150 disfluency episodes. Syllable repetition and word interjection were the most common disfluent types.

• 음성과학
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.83-95
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• 2006

This study attempts to suggest a criterion of Korean language development. For this purpose we investigated speaking rates of the spontaneous utterances produced by 144 children, aged 3 to 8. We analyzed each subject's speaking rate and its relevance with speaker's age, gender and utterance length. To determine the relative contributions of variables to the speaking rate, multiple regression was conducted. Results of this study can be summarized as follows: (1) The mean and maximum values of the speaking rate increased with the growth of age. (2) A statistically significant increase in speaking rate appeared at two-year intervals. (3) There was no significant difference between male and female groups in the speaking rate. (4) The multiple regression analysis has shown that along with the speaker's age, the utterance length(the mean number of syllables per utterance) is also important in estimating the speaking rates.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1994년도 제11회 음성통신 및 신호처리 워크샵 논문집 (SCAS 11권 1호)
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• pp.323-327
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• 1994

There have been three contrastive claims over the classification of Korean. To answer the classification question, timing variables which would determine the durations of syllable, word and foot were investigated with various words either in isolation or in sentence contexts using Soundcoup/16 on Macintosh P.C., and a total of 284 utterances, obtained from six Korean speakers, were used. It was found 1) that the durational pattern for words tended to maintain in utterances, regardless of position , subjects and dialects 2) that the syllable duration was determined both by the types of phoneme and by the number of phonemes, the word duration both by the syllable complexity and by the number of syllables, and the foot duration by the word complexity, 3) that there was a constractive relationship between foot length in syllables and foot duration and 4) that the foot duration varied generally with word complexity if the same word did not occur both in the first foot and in the second foot. On the basis of these, it was concluded that Korean is a word timed language where, all else being equal, including tempo, emphasis, etc., the inherent durational pattern for words tends to maintain in utterances. The main difference between stress timing, syllable timing and word timing were also discussed.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.264-269
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 영어 2음절 단어가 한국어에 차용될 때 어떻게 음절수가 변화하는지 살펴보고 있다. 일반적으로 영어 2음절 단어는 여분의 음절이 더해져서 차용되는 경향이 강하므로, 본 논문에서는 음절수가 증가하는 경향을 분석하여 음절수를 증가시키는 조건을 밝힐 뿐 만 아니라 음절수 증가 알고리즘을 찾아내는 것을 목표로 한다. 구체적으로 영어 2음절 차용어의 음절수를 증가시키는 요인으로는, 첫째 단어에 이중 모음이 있거나, 둘째 특정한 형태의 자음군이 있거나, 셋째 단어에서 마지막 자음과 그 앞의 모음의 특성에 따라서 어말 모음이 삽입되는 경우에 음절수가 증가한다. 이러한 요인에 근거하여 2음절 차용어의 음절수 예측 알고리즘을 4가지 규칙으로 제시하고 그 적용과정의 예를 들고 있다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.63-69
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the maximum and optimal listening speed of Korean TTS for the blind. Five blind participants took part in this study. The instruments used in this study were 17 sentence sets (2 sets for an excercise, 10 sets for a repeated test, and 5 sets for a random test), with short meaningful sentences (the same sentences for the repeated test, different sentences for the random test) with 15 differentiated speeds (Range=0.8-3.6, SD=0.2). Each participant's maximum and quickest listening speeds were calculated by objective recall accuracy (determined by the number of correctly recalled syllables/the total number of syllables in a sentence X 100) and subjective recall accuracy (recall accuracy judged by each participant's subjective evaluation). The results showed that the participants' recall accuracy had a tendency to increase as the TTS speed decreased. Participants' subjective recall accuracy was higher than objective recall accuracy in the repeated tests and vice versa in the random tests. The results also revealed that the participants' sentence familiarity had an influence on their Korean TTS listening speed.

• 정보관리학회지
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• 제22권4호통권58호
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• pp.173-195
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• 2005

본 연구는 언어적 난이도에 영향을 주는 요인들로 텍스트수준점수 측정공식을 구성하는 방법론이 초등학교 텍스트는 물론 중고등학교 텍스트까지 확장 ·적용될 수 있는지 확인하고 텍스트가 확장됨에 따라 나타나는 새로운 특성을 설명할 수 있는 요인들을 규명하고자 한다. 초중고 텍스트 통합공식, 중고등학교 텍스트 전용공식, 초등학교 텍스트 전용공식을 구성하여 각 공식들의 특징을 비교한 결과 텍스트의 범위를 넓게 잡아 통합 공식을 구성하는 것보다는 소규모 집단으로 분리한 후 전용공식을 구성하는 것이 해당 집단의 특성을 잘 반영하는 우수한 공식을 도출할 수 있는 것으로 확인되었다. 중고등학교 텍스트의 점수를 측정하려면 단락내문장수요인, 문장수 $\cdot$ 단락수요인을 사용하고 초등학교 텍스트의 점수를 측정하려면 이형어절수요인, 이형어절수$\cdot$새어절출현비율요인을 사용하는 것이 효율적이었다.