• Title/Summary/Keyword: Word-initial Glottalization

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Causes and Hierarchy of Loanwords Word-initial Glottalization (외래어 어두경음화 발음의 원인과 사회계층)

  • Park, JiYoon
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.421-430
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    • 2021
  • It is necessary to pay attention to the appearance of word-initial glottalization among social classes. The higher the academic ability, the more formal it is, the more likely it is to avoid word-initial glottalization due to the psychological factors that are close to the English pronunciation. The purpose of this study is to prove and clarify this through experimental research and the Praat voice analysis program. In previous discussions on word-initial glottalization, there have been various discussions such as strengthening expressions, the conclusion of competition of modern society, Korean historical analysis, differences in Korean and English phonetics, and attempts to regularize the pronunciation of loanwords. In this paper, it was revealed that the higher the academic ability, the weaker the pronunciation of loanwords word-initial glottalization appears in formal and formal situations, by using experimental research and voice analysis program Praat. The presence or absence of pronunciation of the initial specification of loanwords acts as a psychological base for expressing one's status and hierarchy.

A Study on the Production of the English Word Boundaries: A Comparative Analysis of Korean Speakers and English Speakers (영어 단어경계에 따른 발화 양상 연구: 한국인 화자와 영어 원어민 화자 비교 분석)

  • Kim, Ji Hyang;Kim, Kee Ho
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.47-58
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this paper is to find out how Korean speakers' speech production in English word boundaries differs from English speakers' and to account for what bring about such differences. Seeing two consecutive words as one single cluster, the English speakers generally pronounce them naturally by linking a word-final consonant of the first word with a word-initial vowel of the second word, while this is not the case with most of the Korean speakers; they read the two consecutive words individually. In consequence, phonological processes such as resyllabification and aspiration can be found in the English speakers' word-boundary production, while glottalization, and unreleased stops are rather common phonological process seen in the Korean speakers' word-boundary production. This may be accounted for by Korean speakers' L1 interference, depending on English proficiency.