• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2016

This paper investigated the phoneme distribution and phonological processes of orthographic and pronounced phrasal words in light of syllable structure in the Seoul Corpus in order to provide linguists and phoneticians with a clearer understanding of the Korean language system. To achieve the goal, the phrasal words were extracted from the transcribed label scripts of the Seoul Corpus using Praat. Following this, the onsets, peaks, codas and syllable types of the phrasal words were analyzed using an R script. Results revealed that k0 was most frequently used as an onset in both orthographic and pronounced phrasal words. Also, aa was the most favored vowel in the Korean syllable peak with fewer phonological processes in its pronounced form. The total proportion of all diphthongs according to the frequency of the peaks in the orthographic phrasal words was 8.8%, which was almost double those found in the pronounced phrasal words. For the codas, nn accounted for 34.4% of the total pronounced phrasal words and was the varied form. From syllable type classification of the Corpus, CV appeared to be the most frequent type followed by CVC, V, and VC from the orthographic forms. Overall, the onsets were more prevalent in the pronunciation more than the codas. From the results, this paper concluded that an analysis of phoneme distribution and phonological processes in light of syllable structure can contribute greatly to the understanding of the phonology of spoken Korean.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권10호
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• pp.1879-1890
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• 2011

Previous studies of syllable frequency effects have proposed that inhibitory effects due to high first syllable frequency were the products of competitions between activated lexical candidates within a lexical level. However, these studies have primarily used lexical decision tasks to examine the nature of syllable frequency effects. This study investigates whether a syllable frequency effect can arise in semantic categorization tasks and whether phonologically or orthographically defined syllables interact with semantically related variables such as morphological family size. If the syllable frequency effect was created by activations and competitions on a lexical level, it is highly possible that the effect was related to semantic categorization tasks. To test this hypothesis, we conducted two experiments. In Experiment 1, morphological family size and phonological syllable frequency were factorially manipulated. In Experiment 2, morphological family size and orthographic syllable frequency were factorially manipulated. The results demonstrate that morphemes have no relationship with phonological syllables but do with orthographic syllables. This suggests that phonological syllables and orthographic syllables have different roles in the syllable frequency effect on visual word recognition process.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2002년도 11월 학술대회지
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• pp.97-100
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• 2002

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the unit of neighbor of Korean words. In English, a word's orthographic neighborhood is defined as the set of words that can be created by changing one letter of the word while preserving letter positions. For example, the words like pike, pole, and tile are all orthographic neighbors of the word 'pile'. In this study, 2 experiments were performed. In these experiments, 4 conditions of prime were included: primes sharing first letter of first syllable(1), first syllable(2), first syllable and the first letter of second syllable with target(3) and with no formal similarity with target(4). In Exp.1, RT was shortest in condition 3. In Exp.2, condition 2 had the shortest RT. We came to the conclusion that in Korean, a word's neighbor is words that share at least one syllable with the word.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.23-29
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• 2017

This paper investigated the phonological processes of monophthongs and diphthongs in pronounced phrasal words of the Seoul Corpus by gender and age groups in order to provide linguists and phoneticians with a clearer understanding of the spoken Korean. Both orthographic and pronounced phrasal words were extracted from the transcribed label scripts of the Corpus using Praat. Then, phonological processes of monophthongs and diphthongs were tabulated using an R script after syllabifying the phrasal words into separate components. Results revealed that 97% of the number of syllables in the orthographic and pronounced phrasal words were the same while 65.8% showed difference in the syllable structure. 90.5% of the vowels in the orthographic phrasal words were realized in the pronounced phrasal words. A Chi-square test of independence was performed to obtain a significant dependence in the distribution of phonological process types of male and female groups along with a very strong correlation. Female group changed the diphthong yo into yv at the end of the pronounced phrasal words more often than the male group did. Age groups also showed a significant dependence in the distribution of phonological process types along with a very strong correlation. Females in the 40s produced the diphthong yv and made the vowel raising at the end of the pronounced phrasal words most often among the gender and age groups. From the results, this paper concludes that an analysis of phonological processes in light of syllable structure can contribute greatly to the understanding of the spoken Korean.

• 인지과학
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.161-185
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• 2024

문자 전위 효과는 단어 내 문자의 위치 부호화가 고정적인지 아니면 유동적인지를 규명하는 데 중요한 역할을 한다. 한국어 단어 재인에서 음절은 핵심적인 단위이지만, 음절 전위 효과에 대한 기존 연구들은 일관된 결과를 보이지 않는다. 이는 한글 단어 재인에서 음절 전위 효과의 메커니즘이 아직 충분히 이해되지 않았음을 나타낸다. 본 연구는 한글 표기 음절이 표기 단위이면서 동시에 형태소 단위로 기능한다는 점에 주목하여, 표기 처리와 형태소 처리의 영향을 분리하여 음절 전위 효과를 재검토하였다. 이를 위해 한글 표기 2음절 단어를 사용한 차폐 점화 어휘 판단 과제를 이용한 두 개의 실험을 진행했다. 실험 1에서는 고유어, 한자어, 외래어를 대상으로 음절 전위 효과를 검토해 어종의 영향을 측정했고, 실험 2에서는 단일어와 합성어를 활용해 형태소/의미적 처리가 음절 전위 효과에 미치는 영향을 직접적으로 비교했다. 실험 1과 2의 결과는 모두 2음절 단어에서 유의미한 음절 전위 효과를 분명하게 보여주었으며, 단어의 어종이나 합성성 여부에 관계없이 이 효과는 일관되게 관찰되었다. 이는 형태소/의미적 요인보다는 표기 처리가 한국어 단어 재인에서 음절 전위 효과를 주도한다는 것을 시사한다. 결과적으로, 본 연구는 한글 단어 재인의 초기 단계에서 음절 위치의 부호화가 유동적임을 보여주는 동시에, 음절 전위 효과가 의미 처리가 아니라 지각적인 표기 기반 처리에 의해 발생한다는 것을 의미한다.

• 인지과학
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.15-27
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• 2006

한국어 단어의 글자 수, 받침의 수와 위치, 합성어 여부가 기억폭에 미치는 효과를 검증하였다. 그 결과, 전반적으로 글자가 많은 단어일수록 기억폭이 작았으며, 두 글자 단어들에서 받침이 많을수록 기억폭이 더 작았고(기억폭에 대한 받침효과), 합성어보다 단일어의 기억폭이 더 컸다. 단어당 읽기 속도를 측정한 결과, 글자가 많은 단어일수록 속도가 느렸지만, 두 글자 단어들에서 뒷받침단어의 읽기 속도가 받침없는 단어, 앞받침단어 및 양받침단어보다 더 빨랐고(읽기 속도에 대한 말미 받침효과), 합성어보다 단일어의 읽기 속도가 더 빨랐다. 기억폭과 읽기 속도간에 관찰된 이러한 관계는 단어길이효과에 대한 음운루프설명과 잘 부합되지 않으며, 기억폭이 음운정보 뿐만 아니라 시각적 캐시에 표상되는 철자 정보의 영향을 받는다는 설명을 지지해준다.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.53-67
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• 2005

It is known that Korean stop consonants in syllable-initial position are of three types : lax, aspirated and forced (or unaspirated). In syllable-final position, however, these three different types are merged to a single type with the same place of articulation, although the original three-way distinction is preserved in Korean orthographic (Hangul) system. Thus the syllable-final stops are phonetically realized as voiceless "applosives" which are characterized by the absence of oral release. The aim of the present study is to investigate the laryngeal adjustments for these syllable-final stops in various phonological conditions by using fiberscope, and, is to further investigate electromyographically the laryngeal adjustments for Korean stops both in the syllable-initial and final positions in various phonological conditions. The results can be summarized as follows : 1. In the case of syllable-initial stops, the glottal widths in each three types of the Korean stops during the articulatory closure are clearly different. And the pattern of thyroarytenoid(VOC) activity appeared to characterize the three different types of Korean stops. 2. The basic laryngeal feature of the Korean syllable-final applosives is characterized by a small degree of glottal opening which begins at or slightly after the oral closure. 3. In the case, syllable-final stop followed by the copula "ita", the syllable- final stop is pronounced as the stop consonant at the initial position of the following syllable containing the vowel[i], the underlying features of three-way distinction for the stops in the Korean orthographic(Hangul) system being manifested at the laryngeal adjustment. 4. In the case of the final applosives followed by the initial stops and fricatives, the laryngeal feature of the final applosives appears to be assimilated by that of the following consonant irrespective of the difference in the place of articulation, as far as the glottal abduction/adduction is concerned. It is clearly demonstrated in the case of syllable-initial stop that thyoarytenoid(VOC) activity is suppressed for the production of the stop consonants in question, the degree of which is slightest for the forced type and most marked for the aspirated type, while it is moderate for the lax type.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.25-31
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• 2018

This paper investigated the phonological processes of monophthongs and diphthongs in the pronounced words present in the Buckeye Corpus and compared the frequency distribution of these processes by sex and age groups to provide a clearer understanding of spoken English to linguists and phoneticians. Both orthographic and pronounced words were extracted from the transcribed label scripts of the Buckeye Corpus using R. Next, the phonological processes of monophthongs and diphthongs in the orthographic and pronounced labels were tabulated using R scripts, and a frequency distribution by vowel process types, as well as sex and age groups, was created. The results revealed that 95% of the orthographic words contained the same number of syllables, whereas 5% had different numbers of vowels, thereby proving that speakers tend to preserve vowels in spontaneous speech. In addition, deletion processes were preferred in natural speech. Most vowel deletions occurred with an unstressed syllable. Chi-square tests were performed to calculate dependence in the distribution of phonological process types for male and female groups and young and old groups. The results showed a very strong correlation. This finding indicates that vowel processes occurred in approximately the same pattern in natural and spontaneous speech data regardless of sex and age, as well as whether or not the vowel processes were identical. Based on these results, the author concludes that an analysis of phonological processes in spontaneous speech corpora can greatly enhance practical understanding of spoken English.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제11B권1호
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• pp.99-106
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• 2004

음절 복원은 음성 인식 장치에서 인식된 음가열을 발성 이전의 표기 형태로 복원하는 과정이다. 본 논문에서는 음절 복원 과정을 위하여 표준 발음법을 기반으로 음절 복원 규칙을 작성하였다. 음절 복원 규칙을 이용하여 표기 후보 집합의 생성 방법을 연구하였다. 또한 생성된 표기후보의 수를 감소시키기 위하여, 비 표기 음절을 포함한 표기 후보 감소, 비 어휘 음절을 포함한 표기 후보 감소, 비어간 음절을 포함한 표기 후보 감소의 3단계 감소 과정을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법을 통하여 실험한 결과 평균 74%의 표기 후보 감소율을 나타내었다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.55-62
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• 2019

This paper investigates the phonological processes of consonants in pronounced words in the Buckeye Corpus and compares the frequency distribution of these processes to provide a clearer understanding of conversational English for linguists and teachers. Both orthographic and pronounced words were extracted from the transcribed label scripts of the Buckeye Corpus. Next, the phonological processes of consonants in the orthographic and pronounced labels were tabulated separately by onsets and codas, and a frequency distribution by consonant process types was examined. The results showed that the majority of the onset clusters were pronounced as the same sounds in the Buckeye Corpus. The participants in the corpus were presumed to speak semiformally. In addition, the onsets have fewer deletions than the codas, which might be related to the information weight of the syllable components. Moreover, there is a significant association and strong positive correlation between the phonological processes of the onsets and codas in men and women. This paper concludes that an analysis of phonological processes in spontaneous speech corpora can contribute to a practical understanding of spoken English. Further studies comparing the current phonological process data with those of other languages would be desirable to establish universal patterns in phonological processes.