Phonetics and Speech Sciences (말소리와 음성과학)

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A Comparative Study on the Male and Female Vowel Formants of the Korean Corpus of Spontaneous Speech

한국어 자연발화 음성코퍼스의 남녀 모음 포먼트 비교 연구

  • 윤규철 (영남대학교 영어영문학과) ;
  • 김순옥 (영남대학교 영어영문학과)
  • Received : 2015.05.03
  • Accepted : 2015.06.06
  • Published : 2015.06.30
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Abstract

The aim of this work is to compare the vowel formants of the ten adult female speakers in their twenties and thirties from the Seoul corpus[7] with those of corresponding Korean male speakers from the same corpus and of American female speakers from the Buckeye corpus[4]. In addition, various linguistic factors that are expected affect the formant frequencies were examined to account for the distribution of the vowel formants. Formant frequencies extracted from the Seoul corpus were also compared to those from read speech. The results showed that the formant distribution of the spontaneous speech was very different from that of the read speech, while the comparison between the female and male speakers was similar in both languages. To a greater or lesser degree, the potential linguistic factors influenced the formant frequencies of the vowels.

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