Speech Sciences (음성과학)
- Volume 9 Issue 1
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- Pages.193-206
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- 2002
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- 1226-5276(pISSN)
An Acoustic Study on the Pronunciation of English [kwJ Sequences by Korean EFL Students
- Kim, Jung-Eun (Dept. of English Language and Literature, Pukyong National University) ;
- Cho, Mi-Hui (Dept. of English Language and Literature, Pukyong National University)
- Published : 2002.03.01
Abstract
The aim of this study is to find out how the labiovelar onglide /w/ in English kwV sequences that have minimal pairs with kV sequences is pronounced differently among Korean EFL learners based on acoustic evidence. This study tries to identify /w/ sound in English kwV sequences through spectrograms and to examine the duration ratios of each segment in kwV words to compare the patterns of an English native speaker with those of Korean speakers of English. In spectrographic analyses, the complete deletion of /w/ and partial pronunciation of /w/ dubbed [