Speech Sciences (음성과학)
- Volume 8 Issue 4
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- Pages.221-228
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- 2001
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- 1226-5276(pISSN)
A Comparative Analysis on English Vowels of Korean Students by Formant Frequencies
포먼트에 의한 영어모음 비교 분석
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze the problems Korean students, having acoustic structure of Korean vowels, have when they pronounce English vowels by measuring formant frequencies. The experimental results show that the pronunciation of English vowels by Korean students is partially influenced by their Korean vowels. There is little distinction between /i/ and /I/, /U/ and /u/ due to the absence of short and long vowels in Korean pronunciation. Also, as observed in typical Korean vowel pronunciation, there is little difference between the F1 values of /