• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.97-101
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• 1999

The nasalance score measured by Nasometer is a supplementary data for the perceptually rated nasality by a trained speech pathologist. Because the nasalance score varies with speech material, a valid and reliable material should be developed for evaluating it. The objectives of the present study were (1) to examine whether phonetic contexts affect the nasalace score and (2) to examine the reliability of both meaningless one-syllable words and meaningful sentences. This study analyzed nasalance score in 20 different phonetic contexts from 24 normal adults. The results showed (1) nasalance score increased as the percentage of nasal consonants and vowel /i/ increased, (2) the manner and the place of articulation in oral consonants did not influence the nasalance score, and (3) in nasalance score, correlation between sentences was found to be high, but correlation between syllables was not. These results may indicate that, when preparing the speech material for measuring the nasalance score, it is important to consider not only the percentage of nasal consonants but also that of vowel /i/ in the speech material. In addition, the sentence is more reliable material than meaningless one-syllable words.

• Acta Via Serica
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.85-102
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• 2018

This study aims to contrast phonological characteristics of Korean and Turkish in terms of language universality. Considering consonants, both languages have the same number of consonants (21), which is the most typologically plausible structure of consonants. Thus, it can be said that they display high universality in the number of consonants. However, Turkish shows higher universality in regards to their substance, i.e., it differs from Korean when it comes to the structure of plosives and affricates. Turkish has two contrastive consonants, i.e., voiced and voiceless. However, the Korean plosives and affricates consist of neutral, tense and aspirate voiceless. In the case of vowels, both Korean with 10 vowels and Turkish with 8 vowels show lower universality. Yet, all of those vowels belong to the list of the most plausible vowels which makes their universality higher in substance. In respect of the syllable structure, Korean with its (C)V(C) type shows a moderately complex structure while Turkish with its (C)V(C)(C) type has a complex structure. The coda may consist of two consonants in Turkish while only one consonant is possible in Korean. However, onset is composed of one consonant in both languages. The contrastive study of similarities and differences between Korean and Turkish in terms of phonological characteristics will help not only understand the two languages but also provide useful information to increase the efficacy of Korean language education for Turkish learners of Korean, whose number is rapidly increasing.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제35권
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• pp.293-314
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• 2014

This paper aims to contrast phonology of Korean and Thai in terms of language universality. Considering consonants, both languages having 21 typologically most plausible consonants display high universality in the number of consonants. However, Thai shows higher universality in regards to their substance, i.e. it differs from Korean when it comes to the structure of plosives and fricatives. Both Korean and Thai show similarities regarding the plosives due to the fact that both languages possess three contrastive consonants. However, the Thai plosives consist of plain voiced, plain voiceless and aspirated voiceless sounds that have higher universality than the Korean plosives which are plain voiced, plain voiceless and aspirated voiceless. In case of vowels, both Korean with its 10 vowels and Thai with its 9 vowels show lower universality when it comes to the total number of vowels. However, all of those vowels belong to the list of most plausible vowels which makes their universality higher in substance. In respect of syllable structure, Korean with its CVC type shows a moderately complex structure while Thai with its CCVC type has a complex structure. The coda may consist of only one consonant in each language but onset is composed of one consonant in Korean, and two consonants in Thai. The contrastive study of similarities and differences between Korean and Thai in terms of phonology will help not only understand the two languages but also provide useful information for increasing the efficacy of Korean language education for Thai learners of Korean whose number is rapidly increasing.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.199-208
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• 2022

Korean is an agglutinative language, and one or more morphemes are combined to form a single word. Part-of-speech tagging method separates each morpheme from a word and attaches a part-of-speech tag. In this study, we propose a new Korean part-of-speech tagging method based on the Head-Tail tokenization technique that divides a word into a lexical morpheme part and a grammatical morpheme part without decomposing compound words. In this method, the Head-Tail is divided by the syllable boundary without restoring irregular deformation or abbreviated syllables. Korean part-of-speech tagger was implemented using the Head-Tail tokenization and deep learning technique. In order to solve the problem that a large number of complex tags are generated due to the segmented tags and the tagging accuracy is low, we reduced the number of tags to a complex tag composed of large classification tags, and as a result, we improved the tagging accuracy. The performance of the Head-Tail part-of-speech tagger was experimented by using BERT, syllable bigram, and subword bigram embedding, and both syllable bigram and subword bigram embedding showed improvement in performance compared to general BERT. Part-of-speech tagging was performed by integrating the Head-Tail tokenization model and the simplified part-of-speech tagging model, achieving 98.99% word unit accuracy and 99.08% token unit accuracy. As a result of the experiment, it was found that the performance of part-of-speech tagging improved when the maximum token length was limited to twice the number of words.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.193-212
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• 2010

The purpose of our study was to provide effective speech evaluation items examining the variables of speech that successfully predict the speech intelligibility in CP children. The subjects were 55 children with spastic type cerebral palsy. As for the speech evaluation, we performed a speech subsystem evaluation and a speech intelligibility test. The results of the study are as follows. The evaluation task for the speech subsystems consisted of 48 task items within an observational evaluation stage and three levels of severity. The levels showed correlations with gross motor functions, fine motor functions, and age. Second, the evaluation items for the speech subsystems were rearranged into seven factors. Third, 34 out of 48 task items that positively correlated with the syllable intelligibility rating were as follows. There were four items in the observational evaluation stage. Among the nonverbal articulatory function evaluation items, there were 11 items in level one. There were 12 items in level two. In level three there were eight items. Fourth, there were 23 items among the 48 evaluation tasks that correlated with the sentence intelligibility rating. There was one item in the observational evaluation stage which was in the articulatory structure evaluation task. In level one there were six items. In level two, there were eight items. In level three, there was a total number of eight items. Fifth, there was a total number of 14 items that influenced the syllable intelligibility rating. Sixth, there was a total number of 13 items that influenced the syllable intelligibility rating. According to the results above, the variables that influenced the speech intelligibility of CP children among the articulatory function tasks were in the respiratory function task, phonatory function task, and lip and chin related tasks. We did not find any correlation for the tongue function. The results of our study could be applied to speech evaluation, setting therapy goals, and evaluating the degree of progression in children with CP. We only studied children with the spastic type of cerebral palsy, and there were a small number of severe degree CP children compared to those with a moderate degree of CP. Therefore, when evaluating children with other degrees of severity, we may have to take their characteristics more into account. Further study on speech evaluation variables in relation to the severity of the speech intelligibility and different types of cerebral palsy may be necessary.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.49-61
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• 2016

The present study investigates the perception of Korean phonation types by native speakers of Aymara. Perception tests were conducted on two sets of Korean speech materials to determine correspondence between Korean and Aymara 3-way contrasts and to find out which of the consonantal and vocalic part of the syllable is more influential in the perception of Korean phonation types. A set of manipulated stimuli, as well as a set of 12 spontaneous words, were prepared for the tests. The first syllable of the 12 Korean bisyllabic words of 3 series of phonation types(Lenis, Aspirated, and Fortis) in 4 places of articulation were split into consonantal and vocalic parts. And then the two parts were combined to form 9 tokens of CV sequences respectively for each place of articulation. Native speakers of Aymara were forced to match Korean stimuli with one of the 15 Aymara words which represent 3 series of consonant types(plain, aspirated, and ejective) in 5 places of articulation(bilabial, alveolar, palatal, velar, and uvular). Results showed that the consonantal part is more influential than the vocalic part to the Aymara subjects' perception of Korean phonation types when the consonantal part is Aspirated in its phonation type, but the vocalic part is more influential than the consonantal part when the consonantal part is Lenis or Fortis in its phonation type. Response analysis showed that Aymara subjects tend to match Korean stops to Aymara ones in such a way that Lenis corresponds to aspirated, Aspirated to aspirated, and Fortis to plain.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.104-112
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• 2000

An evaluation of voice disorder has two methods. One is a perceptual analysis and the other is an acoustic analysis. All of these methods are just focused on sustained vowel. The analysis of conversational speech levels in voice disorder has not been achieved enough. The purpose of the present study is to compare two syllable words and sustained vowel in the vocal polyp patients and normal male speakers and to be applied on the vocal assessment and the voice therapy as a basic data. fifteen male patients with vocal polyp were the subject group. Fifteen healthy male were the control group for this study. The voices of the subject and control group, saved in MDVP of CSL were analyzed by its own analysis program. As a results, in subject group, the voice qualities between the vowel following lenis stop and the sustained vowel had no differences, and the voice qualities were different significantly between the vowel following heavily aspirated stop and the sustained vowel. In the control group the vowel fllowing stops and sustained vowel had also many differences in their voice quality, especially significant between the vowel following glottal stop and e sustained vowel.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.51-58
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• 1994

인간과 기계의 가장 자연스러운 의사소통의 형태인 음성을 통한 인터페이스를 위하여 여러가지 음성합성, 인식기법들이 제안되고 실용화되고 있다. 특히 음성합성의 경우는 실용화가 상당히 이루어지고 있음에도 불구하고 평가기법에 관하여는 아직도 초보적인 단계에 머물고 있다. 본 논문에서는 무의미 단어에 의한 합성음 평가법에 사용할 수 있는 다음절 무의미 단어군 작성법을 제안하고 실제로 구현되어 있는 규칙합성기를 제안된 단어군에 의해 평가한 사례를 소개하고자 한다. 제안된 단어군 작성방식은 음소단위 명료도 및 음소환경에 관한 평가를 행할 경우 유용하게 사용될 수 있다.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.31-40
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• 2016

인체라는 하드웨어는 전기적 신호에 의한 세포 활성화에 대한 프로그램이 입력되는 생리적 소프트웨어인 문장에 의해서 생명력이 부여된다. 본 연구는 뉴런과 뉴런으로 전달되는 생리적 인지적 시스템의 오류로 신음하는 인체의 보다 나은 치료적 환경 조성을 위해 인간의 정신계에 희노애락(喜怒哀樂)의 정서를 전기적 신호 체계로 접속시킬 수 있는 전도체로서의 기능을 가진 인체의 소프트웨어인 정격 시조의 문장 프로그램을 통해 정격 시조의 문장뉴런이 인체의 뉴런 시스템에 시냅스 되어 마음의 메인보드를 작동시키는 원리를 인문학적으로 규명해보고자 하였다. 이 원리가 규명되면 어떻게 부작용을 최소한으로 줄이고 인체를 치료적 프로그램으로 이끌어 갈 수 있을 지에 대한 방법을 구상할 수 있게 된다. 연구 결과 정격 시조에서 아주 빠르게 마음의 메인보드를 작동시키는 강렬한 에너지원이 존재하는 것으로 판단될 수 있는 근거를 찾게 되었다. 한 수의 정격 시조를 접하고 혹은 한 음보의 정격 시조를 접하고 곧바로 원작인 정격 시조의 신호 체계를 이어받은 또 다른 문장으로의 새로운 부호화 및 재부호화가 치료적으로 재빠르게 형성됨이 확인되었기 때문이다. 이로써 인류에게는 미래에 부작용 없이 인체에 시냅스 되는 전도체로서의 문장과 인체에 장치된 마음의 메인보드 간의 상호작용의 기능을 통해 인간의 정신계를 풍요롭게 업그레이드 할 수 있는 문학치료의 가능성이 도출되었다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.77-90
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• 2021

본 연구는 국외에서 개발된 비단어 중재접근법을 수정 및 보완하여 한국어 비단어 중재접근법을 확립하고, 아동기 말실행증 아동에게 직접 적용하여 그 효과를 확인하기 위해 실시되었다. 궁극적인 목적은 비단어를 이용한 중재가 아동기 말실행증의 말운동프로그래밍 능력을 개선시켜 비단어 산출 및 단어로의 일반화에 효과적인지 알아보기 위함에 있다. 중재는 아동기 말실행증의 진단 특성을 보이는 5세 6개월의 남아를 대상으로, ABA설계를 사용한 단일대상연구를 실시하였다. 중재에 사용된 비단어는 아동 맞춤형으로 제작하였으며, 한 회기당 60분씩 주 2회로, 총 12회기를 실시하였다. 그 결과 중재한 3음절 비단어의 모든 지표가 향상되었으며, 중재하지 않은 3음절, 4음절 비단어 및 단어로의 일반화를 확인하였다. 단, 단어로의 일반화 효과는 비단어로의 일반화 효과에 비해 미비하였다. 비단어 중재는 대상 아동의 말운동프로그래밍 능력을 개선시키는데 효과적이었다. 그 결과 운동프로그래밍 손상에 기인한 전환 오류가 크게 감소하였고, 중재하지 않은 비단어의 산출 능력이 큰 폭으로 증가하였다. 그러나 강력하게 습관화된 단어 오류를 완전히 개선시키는 데에는 한계가 있었으며, 이는 보다 집중적이고 반복적인 중재 일정을 제공했을 때 기대할 수 있는 결과일 것이다.