Speech Sciences (음성과학)
- Volume 11 Issue 1
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- Pages.87-103
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- 2004
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- 1226-5276(pISSN)
Perception of the English Epenthetic Stops by Korean Listeners
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Han, Jeong-Im
(Dept. of English Language & Literature, Konkuk University)
- Published : 2004.03.01
Abstract
This study investigates Korean listeners' perception of the English stop epenthesis between the sonorant and fricative segments. Specifically this study investigates 1) how often English epenthetic stops are perceived by native Korean listeners, given the fact that Korean does not allow consonant clusters in codas; and 2) whether perception of the epenthetic stops, which are optional phonetic variations, not phonemes, could be improved without any explicit training. 120 English non-words with a mono-syllable structure of CVC1C2, where C1=/m, n,