Japanese Speakers' Perception and Production of Korean Lenis, Aspirated, and Fortis Consonants

일본어 화자의 한국어 평음/기음/경음의 지각과 산출

  • Published : 2002.12.01

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to investigate how Japanese speakers perceive and produce Lenis, Aspirated and Fortis consonants in Korean. Identification tasks and production tasks were performed. The error analysis of both task showed that the participants had a significant difficulty in discriminating between Lenis and Aspirated sounds. And it was observed that there was a positive correlation between identification scores and production scores.

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