• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 2002년도 하계학술발표대회 논문집 제21권 1호
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• pp.87-90
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• 2002

This paper analyzes statistically the relationship between size and balance of text corpus by evaluation of the effect of interview sentences in language model for Korean broadcast news transcription system. Our Korean broadcast news transcription system's ultimate purpose is to recognize not interview speech, but the anchor's and reporter's speech in broadcast news show. But the gathered text corpus for constructing language model consists of interview sentences a portion of the whole, $15\%$ approximately. The characteristic of interview sentence is different from the anchor's and the reporter's in one thing or another. Therefore it disturbs the anchor and reporter oriented language modeling. In this paper, we evaluate the effect of interview sentences in language model for Korean broadcast news transcription system and analyze statistically the relationship between size and balance of text corpus by making an experiment as the same procedure according to varying the size of corpus.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.55-64
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• 2015

Previous research on syntactic processing shows that the interpretation of a syntactically ambiguous sentence is frequently strongly biased towards one meaning over another. The current study investigated the effect of bias strength on the production of disambiguating prosody for English ambiguous sentences. In Experiment 1, 40 speakers gave default readings of 18 syntactically ambiguous sentences. Questioning was used to prove intended meanings behind default readings. Intended meanings were treated as interpretation biases when a majority of speakers read a sentence with the same intended meaning. The size of the majority was used to establish bias strength. In Experiment 2, 10 speakers were instructed to use prosody to disambiguate given alternate meanings of the sentences from Experiment 1. The results indicated an effect of bias strength on disambiguating prosody: speakers used temporal juncture cues to reliably disambiguate alternate meanings for sentences with a weak interpretation bias, but not for those with a strong bias. Overall, the results indicated that interpretation biases strongly affect the production of prosody.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.63-70
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• 2011

Recent studies on English $L^*$ (low pitch accent) have revealed the difference of changes in acoustic manifestation between utterances produced by Koreans and those produced by native speakers of English. However, not much effort has been made to compare $L^*$ focused constituents and non-focused constituents. At the same time, most previous works on focus realization are lacking in terms of normalization of acoustic measurement. Therefore, this research is dedicated to comparing the $L^*$ focused items and non-focused items realized by Koreans and Americans and to examining the realization of English $L^*$ produced by the two language groups with improved normalization of the acoustic features (F0, intensity and duration). Within-group analysis comparing focused words and non-focused words showed both Americans and Koreans prolonged the $L^*$ focused syllables but the effect size of syllable lengthening made by Koreans was far less than that made by Americans. Furthermore, significant F0 lowering was found in Americans but not in Koreans. However, the effect of intensity change caused by $L^*$ focus was not significant within each group. The effect of focused words was tested between the two groups revealing that Koreans implemented English $L^*$ focus with higher F0, lower intensity and shorter duration than Americans. In the instances in which a significant Group x Focus Location (initial, middle and final of a sentence) interaction was found, further analysis testing the effect of Group on each Focus Location was conducted. The testing showed that the Koreans produced shorter syllables at initial and middle of a sentence and higher F0 at initial of a sentence than Americans. Implications for the intonation training were also discussed.

• 인지과학
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.97-116
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• 1995

본 연구는 문장 표상형성 과정에서 통사적 제약과 화용적 제약이 시간경과에 따라 각 구성성분의 표상 및 기억접근에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 살펴보고자 실시되었다.통사적 제약과 화용적 제약을 분리시키기 위해 구성성분의 통사적 역할(주어,목적어)과 언급순서(첫째,둘째)를 조작하였고, 문장 구성성분의 표상강도를 기억접근의 용이서을 통해 살펴보기 위해 각 문장을 마디별로 제시한 후 목표단어의 재인 반응시간을 측정하였다. 탐사재인의 지연시간이 255ms인 실험 1에서는 주어가 목적어보다 그리고 먼저 언급된 정보가 나중에 언급된 정보보다 각각 28ms씩 기억접근 시간이 빠르 것으로 나타났으나,지연시간이 1540ms으로 기렁진 실험2에서는 주어와 목적어간의 기억접근 시간의 차이는 없었고 먼저 언급된 정보가 나중에 언급된 정보에 비해 기억접근 시간이 48ms가 빠른 것으로 나타났다.따라서 통사적 제약과 화용적 제약 모두 문장 표상형성 과정의 초기에는 독립적인 효과를 미치나 일정시간이 경과하면서 통사적 제약의 효과는 사라지며 화용적 제약의 효과만 남는다고 할수 있다.본 연구의 이러한 결과는 문장의 기억표상이 중다제약의 수렴적 만족에 으해서 점진적으로 심성모형을 형성하는 과정이라는 이론적 입장을 지지한다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.33-39
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• 2010

This study investigates the effect of pitch range reset in Korean listeners' processing of syntactically ambiguous participle structures. Unlike Japanese and English,in Korean, the downtrend or the reset of pitch range does not consistently differentiate Accentual Phrases (AP), a lower level of phrasing, from Intonational Phrases (IP), a higher level of phrasing. Therefore, we explore Korean listeners' comprehension patterns for syntactically ambiguous speech strings varying in 1) the relative height of F0 peaks across prosodic units, and 2) the types of prosodic phrasing, to see whether pitch range reset informs the recovery of syntactic structure even though it is not reflected in the intonational hierarchy in Korean. The results show that the hierarchical level of prosodic phrasing affects the parsing pattern of syntactic ambiguity. The pitch range reset also cued the location of syntactic boundaries, but this effect was confined to phrases across AP.

• 음성과학
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.173-184
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• 2002

The question of Korean rhythmic type is still a controversial issue (syllable-timed; stress-timed; word-timed). As a step toward solving the question, an experiment was carried out to examine compression effects in Korean. There has been a general belief that the increase of the number of following or preceding syllables causes compression of a vowel (or syllable) in many languages, and a marked anticipatory compression effect can be especially indicative of stress timing. The purpose of this research, therefore, was to obtain some evidence to determine whether or not Korean is stress-timed. The durations of the target vowel/a/ of the monosyllabic word /pap/ were measured at both word and sentence level. In general, marked anticipatory and backward compression effects on the target vowel were observed across one-, two- and three-syllable words in citation form, whereas the effects were neither marked nor consistent at sentence level. These results led us to claim that Korean is not stress-timed.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.119-124
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• 2017

This study investigates how perception of easy sentences varies with prosody pattern, sound intensity, and signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) in young adults with normal hearing who were in their 20's. The results showed that the presence of proper prosody pattern in the sentences increased correct perception rate of the target sentences, and that the lower the intensity and SNR, the lower the sentence perception scores. The results also showed that SNR had a greater effect on the sentence perception scores than sound intensity. There was a significant decrease of perception scores starting at the level of 15 dB and +3 SNR for the sentences with prosody pattern, while starting at the level of 18 dB and +6 SNR for the sentences without prosody pattern, ending up with a very poor perception score as sound intensity and SNR gets lower. There was a significant difference in the perception score of the sentences with prosody pattern between 20 year-old group and 21 year or older group in several listening conditions of sound intensity and SNR.

• 음성과학
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.191-203
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• 2003

This study examined the effect of vocal loudness on nasalance measures, under the conditions of three sentence patterns (i.e., Oral sentences, Mixed sentences, Nasal sentences). The vocal loudness level was classified into soft voice (55 dB), medium voice (65 dB) and loud voice (75 dB). The participants in the present study were 30 normal adults (male: female =1:1). Kay's Nasometer 6200 was used to measure nasalance and Sound level meter was used to adjust the loudness level. The results of the present study are as follows. Firstly, the change in vocal loudness is in the following. In the Oral sentence stimuli, the loud voice for both male and female showed the highest nasalance degree, and the medium voice the lowest level. In the Mixed and Nasal sentence stimuli, however, male participants showed the highest degree of nasalance in the soft voice, and the lowest degree in the loud voice, and female showed the highest degree of nasalance in the soft voice and the lowest in the medium voice. Secondly, when each subject's nasalance scores were ranked in a ordered manner, noticeable tendency. Lowest nasalance score occurred in the loud voice and the highest nasalance score was recorded in the soft voice during participants' reading of the Nasal sentences. However, it was hard to find such pattern in the Oral sentences. It is assumed that velopharyngeal function could be related to these findings. Furthermore, the findings associated with vocal loudness may have diagnostic as well as clinical implications.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.13-23
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• 2022

Prasad et al.는 사전학습(pre-trained)한 신경망 L1 글로다바(Gulordava) 언어모델을 여러 유형의 영어 관계절과 등위절 문장들로 적응 학습(adaptation learning)시켜 문장 간 유사성(sentence similarity)을 평가할 수 있는 통사 프라이밍(syntactic priming)-기반 프로빙 방법((probing method)을 제안했다. 본 논문에서는 한국인 영어학습자가 배우는 영어 자료를 바탕으로 훈련된 L2 LSTM 신경망 언어 모델의 영어 관계절 혹은 등위절 구조의 문장들에 대한 임베딩 표현 방식을 평가하기 위하여 프로빙 방법을 적용한다. 프로빙 실험은 사전 학습한 LSTM 언어 모델을 기반으로 추가로 적응 학습을 시킨 LSTM 언어 모델을 사용하여 문장 임베딩 벡터 표현의 통사적 속성을 추적한다. 이 프로빙 실험을 위한 데이터셋은 문장의 통사 구조를 생성하는 템플릿을 사용하여 자동으로 구축했다. 특히, 프로빙 과제별 문장의 통사적 속성을 분류하기 위해 통사 프라이밍을 이용한 언어 모델의 적응 효과(adaptation effect)를 측정했다. 영어 문장에 대한 언어 모델의 적응 효과와 통사적 속성 관계를 복합적으로 통계분석하기 위해 선형 혼합효과 모형(linear mixed-effects model) 분석을 수행했다. 제안한 L2 LSTM 언어 모델이 베이스라인 L1 글로다바 언어 모델과 비교했을 때, 프로빙 과제별 동일한 양상을 공유함을 확인했다. 또한 L2 LSTM 언어 모델은 다양한 관계절 혹은 등위절이 있는 문장들을 임베딩 표현할 때 관계절 혹은 등위절 세부 유형별로 통사적 속성에 따라 계층 구조로 구분하고 있음을 확인했다.

• 음성과학
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.229-247
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• 2000

The purpose of this study is to examine the improvement effect of articulation of the fricative consonant /s/(ㅅ), when applying the Articulation Modification Program (AMP) to hearing disordered students. Three hearing disordered students were selected for this study by the consonant picture and Korean Articulation Sentence tests. They have no defect in their emotion, behavior and sight. This program applied the multiple baseline design across subjects to examine the improvement effect of articulation of fricative consonant /s/(ㅅ). Also I designed th$\sim$s program with an advanced pre-test and post-test in order to research the improvement difference of articulation by articulation position and language unit. It was executed 32 sessions over three months, four sessions a week, one session taking forty minutes. The results according to the study subject are as follow; First, as result of AMP, articulation of all students was developed after applying this program. Second, as result of AMP, articulation in fore-word was one-hundred percent efficiency and articulation in middle-word was 97.7% efficiency by position. Third, as result of AMP, articulation in the word reached 98.7% efficiency, in phrase 97.7% efficiency, in the sentence 97.7% efficiency and in the story was 98.3% efficiency by language unit.