• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2002년도 11월 학술대회지
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• pp.77-80
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• 2002

This study proposes phonation type index k as a descriptor of the overall spectral tilt, which is free from the effects of fundamental frequency and vowel quality. The newly proposed phonation type index k presents a simple and single measure of the overall spectral tilt. Phonation type index k can be applied to speech technology. It can also be used in diagnosing patients voice qualities in speech pathology. The distribution of phonation type index k, which is speaker-dependent, may be useful in forensic phonetics and voice recognition as an indicator of speaker identity.

• 음성과학
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.105-116
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• 2004

The fundamental frequency of a vowel is known to be affected by the identity of the preceding consonant. The general agreement is that strong consonants trigger higher F0 than weak consonants. However, there has been a disagreement on the shape of this segmentally affected F0 contours. Some studies report that shapes of contours are differentiated based on the consonant type, but others regard this observation as misleading. This research attempts to resolve this controversy by investigating shapes and slopes of F0 contours of Korean word level speech data produced by four male speakers. Instead of entirely relying on traditional human intuition and judgment, I employed an automatic F0 contour analysis technique known as tilt parameterisation (Taylor 2000). After necessary manipulation of an F0 contour of each data token, various parameters are collapsed into a single tilt value which directly indicates the shape of the contour. The result, in terms of statistical inference, shows that it is not viable to conclude that the type of consonant is significantly related to the shape of F0 contour. A supplementary measurement is also made to see if the slope of each contour bears meaningful information. Unlike shapes themselves, slopes are suspected to be practically more practical for consonantal differentiation, although confirmation is required through further refined experiments.

• 한국영어학회지:영어학
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.287-304
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• 2002

Truncated forms (truncata) in English hypocoristic words have been argued to be faithful to their bases. This means that “ ... the base of truncation is an output form"”(Benua 1995:6,12). For example, in some non-rhotic dialects where syllable-final [r]s are deleted, the [r]s of truncated names such as Gar [gær] (truncated form of Garry [gæri]) are not deleted although they are syllable-final. This is an example of base-truncatum identity. That is, the syllable-final [r] is retained to make the truncatum more faithful to its base. However, there are many English hypocoristic names which are not faithful to their base forms. For example, Letty [equation omitted] (hypocoristic form of Latitia [equation omitted]) is not faithful to its base; the first vowel and the second consonant of the truncatum are not identical to the corresponding segments of the base. It will be argued, therefore, that some truncated forms are more faithful to the inputs than the bases. It will also be argued that McCarthy and Prince's (1995) Full Model is needed to deal successfully with all the phenomena related to truncation.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2023

This study investigates how the phonological and phonetic information of vowels influences prosodic prominence among linguistically untrained listeners using public speech in American English. We first examined the speech material's phonetic realization of vowels (i.e., maximum F0, F0 range, phone rate [as a measure of duration considering the speech rate of the utterance], and mean intensity). Results showed that the high vowels /i/ and /u/ likely had the highest max F0, while the low vowels /æ/ and /ɑ/ tended to have the highest mean intensity. Both high and low vowels had similarly high phone rates. Next, we examined the effects of the vowels' phonological and phonetic information on listeners' perceptions of prosodic prominence. The results showed that vowels significantly affected the likelihood of perceived prominence independent of acoustic cues. The high and low vowels affected probability of perceived prominence less than the mid vowels /ɛ/ and /ʌ/, although the former two were more likely to be phonetically enhanced in the speech than the latter. Overall, these results suggest that perceptions of prosodic prominence in English are not directly influenced by signal-driven factors (i.e., vowels' acoustic information) but are mediated by expectation-driven factors (e.g., vowels' phonological information).

• 인지과학
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.61-78
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• 1991

본 논문은 역행 통로(backward path)를 가진 수정된 Neocognitron 을 한글 음절 인식을 위해 적용한 결과에 관한 것이다. Fukushima의 논문에서 Neocognitron이 $19{\times}19$ 크기의 필기체 숫자를 인식할 수있다고 논술하였다. 본 논문에서는 스캐너 또는 마우스를 이용하여 필기체 한글 문자 또는 그 일부의 $61{\times}61$ 영상을 입력하였다. 수정된 Neocognitron은 3쌍의 Us, Uc층으로 구성되어있다. 본 신경회로망에서 마지막 인식층인 Uc층은 $5{\times}5$ 크기의 세포로 된 24개의 명(plane)으로 구성되어 있는데, 각각의 세포들은 동시에 주의력(attention)을 받아들이느 자소(grapheme)의 존재와 입력층에서의 상대적 위치를 구별할 수 있다. 본 신경회로망은 10개의 단모음 자소, 14개의 단자음 자소와 그들의 공간적 특징을 가지고 학습시켰다. 쉽게 학습되지 않는 패턴들은 여러번 학습시켰다. 왜곡, 잡음, 크기변화, 변형, 회전 등을 갖는 개개의 자소를 분류할 수 있도록 학습된 신경망을 한글 음절의 인식을 위해 사용하였으며, 음절자내의 영상 분할 작업을 위해 선택적 주의력 기법을 사용하였다. 입력문자에 대한 초기 표본 실험에서 본 모형은 필기체 한글 음절자의 시험패턴중 79%를 정확하게 인식하였다. 이 연구결과는 Neocognitron이 입력 영상을 인식가능한 부분으로 분할함으로써 큰크기의 분자 집합을 갖는 필기체 문자를 인식할수 있는 강력한 모형임을 시사해준다. 똑같은 접근 방법이 구조나 자소가 아주 복잡한 한자의 인식에도 적용될 수 있다고 본다. 그러나, 모의실험에서 처리시간에 있어 매우 심한 병목현상을 보여 주었다. 모형의 실질적인 사용을 위해서는 신경칩으로서의 구현이 선결되어야 할 것이다. 또, 복모음, 복자음으로 구성된 한글 음절자 인식을 위하여 모형에 대한 더 깊은 연구가 수행되어질 필요가 있다. 두개의 단자모사이의 이웃지역을 정확히 인식하는 것은 이렇나 작업을 위해 매우 중요한 일이 될 것이다.