• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2006년도 춘계 학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.109-112
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• 2006

This study investigated the acoustical characteristics of phonatory offset-onset mechanisms. And this study shows the comparative results between non-stutterers (N=3) and a stutterer (N=1). Phonatory offset-onset means a laryngeal articulatory in the connected speech. In the phonetic context V_V), pattern 0(there is no changes) appeared in all subjects, and pattern 4(this indicate the trace of glottal fry and closure in spectrogram)was only in a Stutterer. In high vowels(/i/, /u/), pattern 3 and 4 appeared only in a stutterer. Although there is no common pattern among the non-stutterers, individual's preference pattern was founded. This study offers the key to an understanding of physiological movement on a block of stutter.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2000년도 7월 학술대회지
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• pp.338-349
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• 2000

Pronunciation teaching is once again coming into the foreground of ELT. Japan is, however, lagging far behind many countries in the development of pronunciation curricula and in the actual speech performance of the Japanese learners of English. The reasons for this can be found in the prevalence of communicative methodologies unfavorable for pronunciation teaching, in the lack of trained professionals, and in the large numbers of students in Japanese foreign language classes. This paper offers a way to promote foreign language pronunciation teaching in Japan and other countries by means of employing computer and internet facilities. The paper outlines the major directions of using modem speech technologies in pronunciation classes, like EVF (electronic visual feedback) training at segmental and prosodic levels; automated error detection, testing, grading and fluency assessment. The author discusses the applicability of some specific software packages (CSLU, SUGIspeech, Multispeech, Wavesurfer, etc.) for the needs of pronunciation teaching. Finally, the author talks about the globalization of pronunciation education via internet resources, such as computer corpora and speech and pronunciation training related web pages.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.761-772
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• 2020

This paper presents an automatic proficiency assessment method for a non-native Korean read utterance using bidirectional long short-term memory (BLSTM)-based acoustic models (AMs) and speech data augmentation techniques. Specifically, the proposed method considers two scenarios, with and without prompted text. The proposed method with the prompted text performs (a) a speech feature extraction step, (b) a forced-alignment step using a native AM and non-native AM, and (c) a linear regression-based proficiency scoring step for the five proficiency scores. Meanwhile, the proposed method without the prompted text additionally performs Korean speech recognition and a subword un-segmentation for the missing text. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method with prompted text improves the performance for all scores when compared to a method employing conventional AMs. In addition, the proposed method without the prompted text has a fluency score performance comparable to that of the method with prompted text.

• 음성과학
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.29-41
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• 2008

The purpose of this paper is to examine how Chinese speakers realize Korean prosodic phrases in the reading of Korean texts. Prosodic phrase, in this study, is defined as basic unit of spoken language which can be perceived as purely separate phonetic unit by both hearer and speaker, and is realized with a coherent intonational configuration. Prosodic phrase plays an important role in both speech production and perception. In the second language acquisition, prosody influences the accuracy and fluency of spoken language. The main purpose of this study is to describe the aspect of syntagmatic operation of prosody that produces prosodic phrases. We have specifically examined the relations between the prosodic phrase's boundary and its syntactic status. Furthermore, we examined internal syntactic structure of each prosodic phrase. And the results of each analysis were compared to the aspects of prosodic phrases' formation produced by native Korean speakers. The results show that Chinese speakers tend to coincide the prosodic phrases with syntactic structure more than native Korean speakers.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.26-33
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• 2012

The animal naming test (ANT) is known to be influenced not only by age, gender, and education but only by ethnicity, culture, and language. Thus, population-specific norm considering these variables needs to be developed for Korean-speaking elderly. We evaluated 185 healthy elderly people with five measures. Education was the single statistically independent correlate of the total number of words ($R^2$ = .312, p = .038). After adjusting for education, there was slightly significant negative correlation (r = -.215, p = .049) between age and total number of words. Mean number of words produced was $13.71{\pm}3.09$. The production frequency was negatively correlated with the typicality rating (r = -0.41, p < .05). The concrete and exact scoring rule could be set up in the comparison of naming performance between a normal and patient with neuro-linguistic disorder and its data could be utilized in a differential diagnosis for patients with neurological disorders.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제67호
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• pp.61-77
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to blow the characteristics of disfluency in childhood. The subjects were 144 normal children at the age of between 3 to 8 years who lived in Seoul. All the subjects provided spontaneous conversational speech samples during free-play interactions with their friends. We investigated the patterns and the frequency of disfluency and its relevance with subject's age, speaking rate and MLU(mean length of utterance). The results of this study can be summarized as follows. (1) There was no difference in the frequency of disfluency with the speaker's age or speaking rate. (2) Interjection was the most frequently occurring pattern of disfluency. (3) Prolongation, revision, interjection increased with age while part-word repetition, single-syllable word repetition, multi-syllable word repetition decreased gradually. (4) A significant effect of MLU on the frequency of disfluencies were demonstrated. The regression analysis has shown that more disfluencies occurred in utterances of children whose MLU is longer.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.167-172
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• 2019

본 연구는 초기 치매환자를 대상으로 전산화 인지재활프로그램이 전두엽 집행기능 중 생성 이름대기에 미치는 효과를 파악하고, 치매 환자의 조기 언어중재에 관한 기초자료를 제공하였다. 분석 대상은 경증치매환자 29명으로서 전산화 인지재활프로그램(CoTras)을 중재하는 실험군 21명과 지필과 테이블활동 등 전통적인 면대면 언어재활을 중재하는 대조군 8명으로 분류되었다. 실험집단과 대조집단은 모두 12주 동안 순차적 언어 회상 기억훈련, 연합회상 기억훈련, 언어 범주화 기억훈련, 언어통합 기억훈련을 진행하였다. 의미유창성과 음소유창성의 사전검사점수를 공변량으로 통제한 Welch's robust ANCOVA분석 결과, 실험집단과 대조집단은 의미유창성과 MMSE-K의 변화에서 유의미한 차이가 있었다(p<0.05). 반면에, 음소유창성은 실험군과 대조군 모두 기초선단계에 비해서 12주간의 치료 후 유의미하게 증가하였지만 통계적으로 치료방법에 따른 유의미한 차이는 없었다. 본 연구의 결과는 전산화 인지재활프로그램이 전통적인 인지재활에 비해서 의미유창성의 향상에 효과적일 가능성을 시사한다.

• 한국정보과학회 언어공학연구회:학술대회논문집(한글 및 한국어 정보처리)
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• 한국정보과학회언어공학연구회 2003년도 제15회 한글 및 한국어 정보처리 학술대회
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• pp.241-245
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• 2003

본 논문은 기계번역 시스템의 성능평가를 위한 '핵심어 전달율 측정' 방안에 대해서 기술한다. 기계번역 시스템의 성능평가는 두 가지 측면으로 고려될 수 있다. 첫 번째는 객관적인 평가로 IBM에서 주창한 BLEU score 측정이나 NIST의 NIST score 측정이 그 예이다. 객관적인 평가는 평가자의 주관적인 판단이나 언어적인 특성을 배제한 방법으로 프로그램을 통해 자동으로 fluency와 adequacy를 측정하여 성능을 평가한다. 다음은 주관적인 평가이다. 주관적인 평가는 평가자의 평가를 통해 번역의 품질을 평가하는 방법이다. 주관적 평가 방법의 대표적인 것으로는 NESPOLE이나 LDC가 있다. 주관적인 평가는 평가자의 정확한 판단으로 신뢰할만한 성능평가 결과를 도출하지만, 시간과 비용이 많이 들고, 재사용할 수 없다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해, 번역대상 문장에서 핵심어를 추출하고, 그 핵심어가 기계번역 시스템의 수행결과에 전달된 정도를 자동으로 측정하는 새로운 평가방법인 '핵심어 전달율 측정' 방안을 제안한다. 이는 성능평가의 비용과 시간을 절약하고, 주관적 평가와 유사한 신뢰성 있는 평가결과를 얻을 수 있는 좋은 지표가 될 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 음성과학
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.141-149
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• 1999

Parental speaking rates reduction is frequently recommended by speech-language pathologists as a way to facilitate the fluency of preschool children who stutter. However, this clinical notion is in need of empirical support. For this reason, Sim & Zebrowski (1995) examined the ability of young children imitating different speaking rates. However, Sim & Zebrwoski's study was not made in a natural context but in the laboratory, so the findings are limited to apply to the clinical situation. The current study aimed to examine the ability of three different speaking rates(baseline, 10% slower, and 24% slower) in a natural situation both with instruction and without instruction. The results show that (1) all children were able to imitate the stimulus speaking rates adequately, (2) instruction about speaking rates for each child influenced the ability to imitate slower speaking rates. These clinical implications of findings in this study are that 4-5 year-old children are able to imitate different speaking rates with instruction and can be candidates for the parental speaking rates reduction program in the stutter therapy.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.55-66
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• 2021

읽기와 관련된 운율은 내용의 전체적인 맥락에 연결되어 독자가 전달하고자 하는 의미를 자연스럽게 표현할 수 있도록 음도, 강도, 발화속도 등의 변화로 나타난다. 읽기장애아동은 자연스러운 운율을 사용한 읽기에 어려움이 있어 표현력 있게 정보를 전달하지 못하는 경향이 있다. 이와 관련하여 본 연구는 문장 유형에 따른 읽기 과제를 통하여 읽기장애아동 집단과 일반아동 집단 간의 운율 특성 차이를 규명하였다. 초등학교 3-6학년 읽기장애아동 15명, 일반아동 15명을 대상으로 통사적으로 다양한 문장 유형(단문, 의도, 가정/조건, 관형절 내포문)에 따른 읽기 과제를 실시하였다. 읽기장애아동은 일반아동에 비해 음도 범위가 넓었으며 읽기 속도와 조음 속도가 느렸다. 또한 휴지 빈도가 높았으며 전체 휴지 지속시간도 길었다. 읽기장애아동은 문미 억양구와 문장 내 어절 단위 음도 기울기에서 일반아동에 비해 기울기 값이 컸으며 이상의 내용은 모두 통계적으로 유의하였다. 결과적으로 문장 유형에 따른 읽기 과제에서 읽기장애아동은 일반아동에 비해 자연스럽고 표현력 있는 읽기에 어려움을 보였다. 본 연구를 통해 읽기장애아동의 운율 특성을 파악하였고, 효과적인 중재를 위한 접근 방법의 필요성을 제시했다.