A Study on the Duration of Korean medial fortis by Japanese Speakers

일본인 학습자의 국어 어중 경음 지속 시간 연구

  • Noh, Seok-Eun (Spoken Language Information Lab, Institute of Korean Culture, Korea Univ.)
  • 노석은 (고려대학교 민족문화연구원 음성언어정보연구실)
  • Published : 2005.04.27

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is the comparison of the Korean medial fortis duration between Korean native speaker and Japanese native speaker who study Korean language. For this purpose, I selected words with medial fortis from the SITEC DB. The Korean medial fortis of Japanese tends to have longer closure/friction duration than Korean native speakers in 3 syllables words. There are no distinct differences in 2 syllables words. This might be owing to the different timing unit of Korean and Japanese.

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