• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.63-72
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• 2016

Nominal compounds of 'N1 + N2'in Korean can be classified into the following three major categories: co-compound, sub-compound, and fusion. Among these three major categories, insertion of /t/ in the compounding process and subsequent tensification are found only in sub-compounds. This peculiar phenomenon of /t/-insertion which causes, in turn, tensification in sub-compounds has been long controversial because linguists have not been able to expect in which phonological environment of sub-compounding insertion of /t/ takes place. In this paper, I explore a phonological rule which makes it possible to expect the phonological environments of sub-compounding that allow insertion of /t/ and automatic tensification of the subsequent consonant in the onset of N2. In this process, I show that semantic feature(s) between two combined roots should be considered as one of the important structural descriptions in phonology.

• 음성과학
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.223-232
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• 2004

This study investigated and compared the acoustic characteristics of the Korean stop sound [k'] in three different phonological environments: the tensified lenis stop [k'] as observed in /prek+kaci/, the fortis stop /k'/ as in /pre+k'aci/, and the fortis stop /k'/ following an obstruent as in /prek+k'aci/. The specific research question was whether or not the tensified lenis stop shares all the acoustic features with the other two kinds of fortis stops. The acoustic measures adopted in this study were H1*-H2*, VOT, length of stop closure, and $F_0$. The major findings were that the three stops showed no significant difference in all the acoustic measures except the length of stop closure. The fortis stop /k'/ following an obstruent showed significantly longer duration of stop closure than the other two stops, both of which showed no significant difference. Based on these phonetic results, this study argued that, for the proper phonological description of post-obstruent tensification, the phonological feature [slack vocal folds] of a lenis stop should be changed into [stiff vocal folds, constricted glottis] that the fortis stops should have.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2014

The present study examined epenthetic vowels produced by Korean learners of English in read sentences, in terms of acoustic measures and extra-phonological factors. The results demonstrated three main findings. First, epenthetic vowels had relatively high F1 values and a wide range of F2 values. Most of the epenthetic vowels were inserted near Korean high central vowels, but some vowels were inserted near front vowels due to co-articulation with surrounding vowels. Second, vowel epenthesis was affected by the context. The results showed that the epenthesis was frequently seen with word junctions between obstruents (e.g., stops-fricatives). Third, Korean learners were not affected by English background and were very weakly affected by orthography. English experience, which is one of the extra-phonological factors, was not related to epenthesis production. However, orthography, the other extra-phonological factor, very weakly affected the amount of epenthesis production. Nine percent of all epenthesis production was affected by the English past-tense suffix '-ed'; approximately 70% of the participants were affected by this suffix. The findings of the present study contributed to understanding vowel epenthesis. First, the study revealed that the epenthetic vowels produced by Korean learners of English were close to the high central vowel, supporting previous studies that the epenthetic vowel is quite close to the shortest vowel. Second, the study examined the various phonetic environments of epenthetic vowels, revealing that vowel epenthesis occurred more frequently in a certain phonetic circumstance.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제37호
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• pp.1-12
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• 1999

In this paper, we examine the allophones of an underlying segment /l/ in Korean dialects. In particular, we examine how an underlying /l/ sound surfaces in the Korean dialect spoken at Yonbyon, China. To do so, we employ the following processes: First, we perform the phonetic studies on the allophones of an underlying /l/ in the Yonbyon dialect. Secondly, we compare the phonological environments of the allophones of an underlying /l/ in the Yonbyon dialect with the South Korean dialect. Finally, we discuss the phonological implications of the allophones of the underlying /l/ in terms of Feature Geometry and Syllable Contact Law. Based on the phonetic study, we will argue that the distinctive feature [sonorant] should be placed outside the root node and that the flap, an allophone of an underlying /l/, should be understood as an obstruent, not a sonorant.

• 컴퓨터교육학회논문지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.99-106
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• 2014

본 연구는 영어 단어 학습의 핵심 인지기능인 작업기억의 음운고리를 적극적으로 활용하게 하는 영어 단어 제시 방법이 무엇이고 이 방법이 외국어 학습 동기 정도에 따라 효과가 다르게 나타나는지를 두실험을 통해 검증하였다. 실험1에서 학습자에게 음운고리를 최소 3회 사용하게 하는 제시 방법과 1회 사용하게 하는 제시 방법 그리고 자신이 제시 횟수 및 제시 시간을 조정할 수 있는 조건을 제시하였다. 실험1결과 3회 제시 조건이 1회 제시 조건에 비해 학습효과가 더 높게 나타났다. 실험2에서 외국어 학습 동기가 높은 집단과 낮은 집단에게 3회 제시 조건과 자기 조절 조건을 제시하여 학습 효과를 검증하였다. 실험2결과 고-동기 집단의 경우 제시 방법에 따른 학습의 정도는 차이가 없었지만, 저-동기 집단의 경우 자기 조절 조건에서 더 좋은 성과를 보였다. 이에 본 연구는 논의에서 컴퓨터 및 디지털 환경에서 영어 단어를 어떻게 제시해야 학습효과가 증진될 수 있는지를 제안하였다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.69-76
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• 1994

국어 자음을 단어내 음운환경별로 실험해 본 결과, 국어의 자음변이 규칙이 반영된 일관성있는 음가변화를 발견하였다. 발견된 음가변화는, ⅰ) 장애음의 길이는 모음간보다 단어초가 길고, ⅱ) 공명음의 길이는 단어초와 모음간보다 단어말이 길며, ⅲ) /ㄹ/의 F2와 F3는 모음간이 낮고 단어말은 높다는 것이다.ⅰ) 이들 음향특징의 근거가 되는 국어의 자음변이 규칙은, ⅰ) 평음의 유성화 현상, ⅱ) 음절말 불파음화 현상, ⅲ) 단어초 기음화 현상, ⅳ) /ㄹ/ 음소의 [r]과 [l] 교체현상이다. 본 실험결과 제시된 변화값은 음성인식 및 합성에 응용될 때 인식의 정확성과 합성의 자연성을 향상시킬 수 있다.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제39호
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• pp.15-24
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• 2000

This study aims to reexamine Korean Lenis Stop Voicing (henceforth, LSV) and to specify its phonetic conditions in phonetic terms. LSV optionally occurs within certain prosodic domains. They are called 'Malthomak'(Lee, 1996),'phonological phrase'(Kang, 1992), or 'accentual phrase'(Jun, 1993). On the basis of Jun's phrasing, this study focuses on the more specific phonetic conditions of LSV in the accentual phrase medial position, sub-classifying voicing as complete and partial. The results shows that whether the stops become completely voiced or partially voiced was determined by the various phonetic environments, such as adjacent segments and following intonational phrase boundaries. It is shown that the conditions of LSV should be described in terms of more detailed phonetic environments and that they could be used in predicting the class of voicing.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 2000년도 하계학술발표대회 논문집 제19권 1호
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• pp.329-332
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• 2000

변수로서 악센트구 내 음절수, 첫째 음절과 둘째 음절의 음절 유형 (폐음절 대 개음절), 첫째 음절과 둘째 음절의 초성 자음의 유형 등을 고려하여 선택된 3음절 무의미 단어 35개와 4음절 무의미 단어 35개를 사용하여 4음절 이상으로 이루어진 서울말 악센트구의 성조에 대 하여 조사하였다. 이 실험의 발화에서는 1) 악센트구성조에 대하여 4음절과 5음절의 차이는 나타나지 않았다. 2) 음절 유형은 첫째 음절의 초성 자음이 보통음일 때는 유의한 영향을 미치지 않았으나, 센소리일 때는 둘째 음절의 유형이 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 드러났다 3) 악센트구 성조에 대하여 첫째 음절의 초성 자음의 유형이 중요한 역할을 하는 것으로 나타났다 첫째 음절의 초성 자음이 센소리일 때 악센트구 4개 성조 모두 보통음일 때에 비해 높게 나타났다. 4) 둘째 음절의 초성 자음의 유형도 자신의 성조에 유의한 영향을 끼치는 것으로 드러났으며 센 소리로 시작하는 경우에 다른 유형의 자음에 비하여 자신의 피치 값이 높은 것으로 나타났다.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제35_36호
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• pp.189-209
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• 1998

This study discusses Korean speech database that has been designed and constructed for common use, especially focusing on designing a list of words or sentences that covers various phonological environments. As the results, PBW(Phonetically Balanced words) and PBS(Phonetically Balanced Sentences) was selected from balanced text corpus using maximum entropy method. And, implemented workbench for spoken language data acquisition is presented in this paper. The workbench consists of grapheme to phoneme converter, utterance list selection module, speech data editing module, multi-layer labelling module, and phoneme context search module.

• 한국어학
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• 제81권
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• pp.267-297
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• 2018

Vowel raising in Korean has been primarily treated as a phonological, categorical change. This study aims to show how the Korean connective suffix {-go} is realized in various environments, and propose a principle of vowel raising based on both acoustic and perceptual data. To that end, we used a corpus of spoken Korean to analyze the types of syntactic constructions, the realization of prosodic boundaries (IP and PP), and the types of boundary tone associated with {-go}. It was found that the vowel tends to be raised most frequently in utterance-final position, while in utterance-medial position the vowel was raised more when the syntactic and prosodic distance between {-go} and the following constituent was smaller. The results for boundary tone also showed a correlation between vowel raising and the discourse function of the boundary tone. In conclusion, we propose that vowel raising is not simply an optional phenomenon, but rather a type of phonetic reduction related to the comprehension of the following constituent.