• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.137-143
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• 2013

Recent investigation of acoustic correlates of Korean stop manner contrasts has reported a diachronic transition in Korean stops: young Seoul speakers are relatively more dependent on the F0 characteristics of the stops than on the VOT characteristics in aspirated and lenis stop distinction. This finding has been examined against tonal dialects of Korean and the results suggested that the speakers of tonal dialects are not sharing the transition. These results also suggested that F0 function for segmental stop classification interferes with the function for lexical tone classification in their tonal speech. The current study investigated these findings in terms of perception. Perceptual behavior of Seoul and Busan speakers of Korean was examined in a comparative manner through the measurement of perceptual cue weight of F0 and VOT in particular. The results from regression and correlation analyses revealed that Busan speakers are closer to older Seoul speakers than to younger Seoul speakers in that the cue weight for VOT and F0 were comparable in the aspirated-lenis stop distinction. This result was in contrast to the perceptual behavior of younger Seoul speakers who showed clear dominance of F0 over VOT for the same distinction. These findings provided perceptual evidence of the dual function of F0 for segmental and lexical distinctions in tonal dialects of Korean.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.33-38
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• 2024

The present study investigated the perceptual cues utilized by Korean L2 learners of English in recognizing lexical stress in English nonwords, with a focus on the roles of fundamental frequency (F0) and duration. Twenty-three Korean learners of English participated in a sequence recall task involving nonword stimuli under five different conditions: (1) the naturally-produced stimuli, (2) the duration-only condition, (3) the F0-only condition, (4) the duration-F0 matching condition, and (5) the duration-F0 conflicting condition. The results demonstrate that F0 is the primary cue for stress perception among Korean L2 learners, whereas duration acts as a secondary cue, particularly when F0 is unreliable or absent. These findings highlight the influence of L1 prosodic structures on L2 perception and suggest that Korean L2 learners adapt their perceptual weighting of stress based on cue availability. This study contributes to the understanding of the role of cue weighting in L2 prosodic acquisition.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.323-339
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• 2026

This research develops and empirically tests a contingency model explaining how specific linguistic characteristics of a firm's response to an online review influence the review's usefulness. We argue that the diagnostic value of different linguistic cues is contingent upon the reader's information processing mode-systematic versus heuristic-which is triggered by the valence of the original review's rating. An econometric analysis of 41,704 review-response dyads from TripAdvisor reveals that a conceptual cue (personalization, operationalized as topical relevance) and a perceptual cue (readability) both significantly increase review usefulness. In contrast, another perceptual cue (Linguistic Style Matching) decreases usefulness, a finding we interpret as potentially stemming from a lack of perceived authenticity. Critically, these effects are conditional on the review's rating: the positive impact of personalization is maximized for negative reviews, which elicit systematic processing. Conversely, the impacts of perceptual cues (readability and LSM) are most pronounced for positive reviews, which elicit heuristic processing.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.3-10
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• 2010

The proposal that a sound change is occurring in Korean stops was evidenced in this study through identification experiments on Korean stops. Perceptual weight of acoustic correlates to Korean stop manner contrast [VOT (Voice Onset Time), H1-H2 (amplitude difference between the first and second harmonics), and F0 (Fundamental frequency)] was examined with re-synthesized /$t^ha$/, /ta/, and /$t^*a$/ syllables for younger and older Seoul speakers of Korean. For the identification of the aspirated and lenis stops, F0 cue weight relative to VOT was greater for the younger listeners than the older listeners. For H1-H2 cue weight, the two listener groups were more or less the same. These findings were parallel to the production differences found in the earlier work of the author. Combined with production differences, these perception differences between younger and older generations of Seoul speakers suggested that there are generational differences in the phonetic targets of Korean aspirated and lenis stops and such differences are realized in the perception of the stops.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.19-24
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• 2022

This study examined which acoustic cue(s) that Korean learners of English give weight to in perceiving English lexical stress. We manipulated segmental and suprasegmental cues in 5 steps in the first and second syllables of an English stress minimal pair "object". A total of 27 subjects (14 native speakers of English and 13 Korean L2 learners) participated in the English stress judgment task. The results revealed that native Korean listeners used the F0 and intensity cues in identifying English stress and weighted vowel quality most strongly, as native English listeners did. These results indicate that Korean learners' experience with these cues in L1 prosody can help them attend to these cues in their L2 perception. However, L2 learners' perceptual attention is not entirely predicted by their linguistic experience with specific acoustic cues in their native language.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2024

The Korean phonemes /o/ and /u/ are reported to be undergoing an ongoing merger in the F1 and F2 acoustic space, particularly among female speakers. This study investigates how cue weighting shifts during this sound change in both production and perception, and whether male speakers demonstrate better perception of these phonemes due to their less overlapped F1, F2 space compared to female speakers. A perception experiment was conducted following confirming the distribution of production cues (F1, F2, H1-H2, H1-A1). Production results from five female and five male speakers indicate that males produce the two phonemes more distinctively than females. Among female speakers, only F2 plays a significantly strong role in distinguishing /o/ and /u/, while for male speakers, F1, F2, and H1-A1 are all critical for differentiating the two phonemes. However, the perception results reveal a less pronounced gender difference compared to production, with female speakers even outperforming males, contrary to the production findings. This suggests a discrepancy between gender differences in acoustic production and perceptual abilities. Additionally, F2 emerged as the most prominent cue for both the production and perception of /o/ and /u/.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.63-70
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• 2019

This study investigated individual variability of L2 learners' categorical judgments of L2 stops by exploring English learners' perceptual processing of two acoustic cues (voice onset time [VOT] and f0) and working memory capacity as sources of variation. As prior research has reported that English speakers' greater use of the redundant cue f0 was responsible for gradient processing of native stops, we examined whether the same processing characteristics would be observed in L2 learners' perception of Korean stops (/t/-/t^h/). 22 English learners of L2 Korean with a range of L2 proficiency participated in a visual analogue scaling task and demonstrated variable manners of judging the L2 Korean stops: Some were more gradient than others in performing the task. Correlation analysis revealed that L2 learners' categorical responses were modestly related to individuals' utilizations of a primary cue for the stop contrast (VOT for L1 English stops and f0 for L2 Korean stops), and were also related to better working memory capacity. Together, the current experimental evidence demonstrates adult L2 learners' top-down processing of stop consonants where linguistic and cognitive resources are devoted to a process of determining abstract phonemic identity.

• 음성과학
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.47-58
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• 1998

This paper tests whether frication duration plays an important role in perceiving fricatives and affricates. In other words, whether the frication duration is an acoustic cue for distinguishing fricatives from affricates. For this purpose two types of experiments are carried out. In the first experiment two sets of stimuli are created by decreasing the frication duration of fricatives by 10ms, and in the second experiment two steps of stimuli are created by increasing the frication duration of affricates by 10 ms. The results of the present study show that frication duration is the primary acoustic cue in perceiving fricative/affricate distinction in Korean. In addition, the amplitude rise time and burst information appear to play secondary roles in perceiving the distinction by a series of perception tests.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.65-87
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• 2019

Most studies on how people perceive a given quantity of items were conducted with visual cues exclusively and only offered spatial area based explanations, such as spatial estimation and perceptual grouping theories. This article establishes how people perceive a given quantity when only a written description is provided without any visual cues. Across two studies we show that variety decreases perceived quantity when a variety cue is given, while variety increases perceived quantity when a visual cue is not given. This is because people tend to rely heavily on spatial areas when a visual cue is present and because people are prone to confirmation bias when they are provided with no visual cues but only written descriptions. Furthermore, we highlight that quantity perception has a mediation effect on consumers' attitude-the intention to participate in sales promotional events. Lastly, we summarize the article and discuss its contributions, implications, limitations, and suggestions for future research.

• Spatial Information Research
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.23-32
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• 2010

산림영역에서 획득된 라이다데이터는 산림영역의 DTM생성, 수고 및 산림생체량 추정과 같은 산림연구에 효과적으로 이용될 수 있다. 이를 위한 핵심적인 전처리 과정으로 본 연구는 라이다데이터로부터 산림영역을 효과적으로 탐지하기 위한 방법을 개발하고자 한다. 먼저 라이다데이터로부터 산림영역으로 판단하기에 효과적인 다반사 특성, 높이값 편차 및 공간적 분포에 기반한 세 가지 인지적 단서를 제시하였다. 각 단서들에 기반하여 산림후보영역을 탐지하고, 오분류를 제거하고 경계를 정제하기 위한 이진형태학적처리를 수행하여 최종산림영역을 결정하였다. 항공영상을 이용하여 생성한 기준데이터로 검증한 결과에 따르면 세 종류 단서에 의한 방법 모두 약 90% 이상의 정확도를 보이는 것으로 평가되었다. 특히 다반사 특성에 기반한 방법이 다른 방법에 비교하여 정확도 및 단순도 측면에서 보다 좋은 방법으로 판단된다. 또한, 각각의 단서에 기반한 개별적인 결과를 조합하면 분류 정확도가 개선되는 것을 확인하였다.