Speech Sciences (음성과학)
- Volume 8 Issue 4
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- Pages.193-206
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- 2001
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- 1226-5276(pISSN)
An Acoustic Study of the Pronunciation of English Vowels Uttered by Korean Regional Dialect Speakers
지역 방언 화자에 따른 영어 모음의 발음 연구
Abstract
The purpose of this experimental study was to investigate characteristics of English vowels uttered by Korean regional dialect speakers. Ten English mono-syllabic words, and eight Korean mono-syllabic words, were uttered six times by nine female graduate students from three areas: Seoul, Yongnam and Honam. Formant frequencies were measured from sound spectrograms made by the PC Quirer. Results showed that Seoul dialect speakers uttered English vowels more similar to those uttered by English native speakers than did the other dialect speakers. In particular, Yongnam dialect speakers have articulatory problems pronouncing the back vowels(/u/, /